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1. Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
    
2. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities
   - giant, hulk, heavyweight

1. Hunt for whales
    
2. [N. Amer] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, wipe the floor, hammer, slaughter, tromp [N. Amer], smoke [N. Amer], muller [Brit], beat hollow
    
3. [N. Amer] Beat severely with a whip or rod
   - flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce

Sounds like: wade, weighed, whal

Derived forms: whaling, whales, whaled

Type of: beat, beat out, beat up, blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal, crush, hunt, hunt down, large person, run, shell, track down, trounce, vanquish, work over

Encyclopedia: Whale Whale, Cumbria Whale, killer