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What is a whaleback?

What is a whaleback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
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The old hag's presence was clearly evident as I climbed the mountain's long whaleback ridge.
You can't see one side of the valley from the other, because the view is blocked by the big bare whaleback of Samitos mountain at the centre of the circle.
Head east now over a broad whaleback to the cairn at 829m, the summit of Brown Cow Hill.
The waterfall, trackway and the whaleback of rock made it a key location in the landscape.
With ample artillery and fresh reserves at our command we were determined to gain the summit of the whaleback in a final drive.
For the next week there was a bitter struggle for Bourlon Wood, whose whaleback mass still dominates the battlefield.

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