One was the harpoon with which the deed was committed.Īt last we were getting something positive, and yet it seemed a long gap between an absconding banker and Captain Peter Carey pinned against the wall with one of his own harpoons. Right through his broad breast a steel harpoon had been driven, and it had sunk deep into the wood of the wall behind him. we conclude that Harpoon should have been able to identify with ascertainable certainty ' that it met the regulatory definition of lessor. C17: probably from Dutch harpoen, from Old French harpon clasp, from harper to seize, perhaps of Scandinavian. (Fishing) ( tr) to spear with or as if with a harpoon. Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? a barbed missile attached to a long cord and hurled or fired from a gun when hunting whales, etc. That very night he went down to Woodman’s Lee, saw Peter Carey at the hut, quarrelled with him, and killed him with the harpoon. Harpoon definition, a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large. He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.

I spotted that harpoon upon the wall, and I thought I might need it before I was through. (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)Ĭhallenger and Summerlee had gone off together that day to the lake where some of the natives, under their direction, were engaged in harpooning specimens of the great lizards.

In Europe, large nets and harpoons are being developed to catch debris encircling our planet. (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Definition noun: a long weapon used especially for hunting large fish or whales noun: a barbed spear or javelin used especially in hunting large fish or. A long-shafted barbed spear, used in catching whales, &c. I knew Black Peter, and when he pulled out his knife I whipped a harpoon through him sharp, for I knew that it was him or me.

Definition harpoon