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whale's guide en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) A type of small fish thought to accompany the whale.
it is in shape like a Gudgeon, and both the Latines and we, call it the Whales-guide; for, she doth ever follow him, suffering her selfe, as easily to be led and turned by him, as a ship is directed and turned by a sterne[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:This tiny Creature is the Whale's Guide, and therefore protected by him, while all the finny Race besides are his Prey.
1730, Matthew Concanen, The Speculatist, page 267: