Greenlandman

English

Etymology

From Greenland +‎ -man.

Noun

Greenlandman (plural Greenlandmen)

1. (historical) A whaling ship, normally operating in the North Atlantic.
   • 1784, Joseph Mace et al., “A summary account of rewards bestowed by the Society, from the year MDCCLXXV to the year MDCCLXXXII, inclusive”, in Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce‎^[1], volume 2, page 214:

     In the year 1779, Ten guineas, being the Premium offered for an account of taking Whales by the Gun Harpoon, was adjudged to Captain Humphrey Foord of the Mancheſter Greenlandman[.]

2. (archaic) A male Greenlander.