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What does harpooner mean?

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Noun
  1. A person who uses a harpoon, especially to hunt whales
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Not to mention one of the main characters in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Ned Land, a harpooner from Quebec City.
Yes, he was a part of it, he would become a part of it, and he had been a harpooner for a long time.
The captain himself went in one as harpooner, the second mate in the other.
After the harpoon has been extracted a hole remains which forms the mark for the harpooner.
Oomittuk joined the tribal council, and worked as a harpooner in his uncle's umiak skin boat.
North, recognising the voice as that of a young man named Macy, his own harpooner, at once bade him enter.

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