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1. Synonyms, etymology, translation, definition, examples and notes

1.1.  Subject field:

  1. Fishing.    (🏛 Hierarchy:   Fisheries > Fishing )

1.2. IPA transcription and prononciation for harpoon: 🔊

/hɑː(ɹ)ˈpuːn/

1.3.  Etymology of Harpoon:

Borrowing from Middle French harpon ‘harpoon’, divisible into harper, ‘to fish with a grapple hook’, and -⁠on, ‘object’; from Germanic harpan, ‘to seize’; early 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’.

1.4. 🇫🇷 French translation of harpoon:

  1. Harpon

1.5. Definition of harpoon in fisheries:


Image: Definition of harpoon
Harpoon: a long, spear-like weapon used to hunt large fish or marine mammals, such as whales

1.6. Plural of harpoon:


Harpoons;


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