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• harpoon — ► NOUN ▪ a barbed spear like missile attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures. ► VERB ▪ spear with a harpoon. DERIVATIVES harpooner noun. ORIGIN French harpon, from… …   English terms dictionary

• Harpoon — A harpoon is a long spear like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or other large aquatic animals such as whales. It accomplishes this task by impaling the target animal, with the fishermen then using the a rope or chain attached to the butt …   Wikipedia

• Harpoon (comics) — Superherobox| caption=Harpoon comic color=background:#ff8080 character name=Harpoon real name=Kodiak Noatak species=Human Mutant publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Uncanny X Men #210 (Oct 1986) creators=Chris Claremont John Romita, Jr. Dan Green… …   Wikipedia

• Harpoon (disambiguation) — A harpoon is a long spear like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or other aquatic animals such as whales.Harpoon may also mean:* Boeing Harpoon, an anti ship missile. * Harpoon (computer game), a computer game that simulates air and naval… …   Wikipedia

• harpoon — noun a barbed spear like missile attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures. verb spear with a harpoon. Derivatives harpooner noun Origin C17: from Fr. harpon, from harpe …   English new terms dictionary

• harpoon — /haˈpun / (say hah poohn) noun 1. a barbed, spear like missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used in catching whales and large fish. 2. Colloquial an additional period taught by a teacher because of the absence of a… …  

• harpoon — a pointed dart with barbs attached to the end of a line several hundred metres in length, the other end of which is attached to a flotation device or shaft. Harpoons are thrown by hand or by a gun mechanism into a fish like swordfish, bluefin… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Toggling harpoon — The toggling harpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown. Unlike earlier harpoon versions which had only one point, a toggling harpoon has a two part point. One half of the point is firmly attached to the… …   Wikipedia

• Conus — This article is about the genus of snails. For other uses, see Conus (disambiguation). Cucullus redirects here. This may also refer to part of the clasper in male insect genitalia. Cone snails Temporal range: Eocene–Recent …   Wikipedia

• Love dart — SEM image of lateral view of a love dart of the land snail Monachoides vicinus. The scale bar is 500 μm (0.5 mm) …   Wikipedia

• Cone snail — Taxobox name = Cone snails image width = 250px image caption = Geography cone, Conus geographus regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Gastropoda subclassis = Orthogastropoda superordo = Caenogastropoda ordo = Sorbeoconcha subordo =… …   Wikipedia