Nantucket sleigh ride



Nantucket sleigh ride

An instance of a whaling ship that has hooked a whale and thus is being pulled by it. We're going on a Nantucket sleigh ride today, boys—I can feel it! There's a whale out there just waiting for our harpoons!
See also: ride

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JorjaJAWR-jəEnglish (Modern)
Mihailo-Serbian
Hananiahhan-ə-NIE-ə (English)Biblical
Ladislav-Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian
Hamed-Arabic, Persian
ArİF-Turkish, Azerbaijani