harpoon
noun/hɑːˈpuːn/
/hɑːrˈpuːn/
- a weapon like a spear attached to a long rope that you can throw or fire from a gun and is used for catching large fish, whales, etc.
- Traditionally whales were hunted with harpoons.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHarpoon is used before these nouns:- gun
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a barbed dart or spear): from French harpon, from harpe ‘dog's claw, clamp’, via Latin from Greek harpē ‘sickle’.
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