whale-path

whale-path

English

Etymology

From whale +‎ path, after Old English hranrād.

Noun

whale-path

1. (poetic) The sea(s), the ocean(s).
   • 1885, James Frederick Hodgetts, The champion of Odin; or, Viking Life in the Days of Old, page 134:

     At last a ship, called by the English a "long-ship," was put at their disposal, and the men rowed away on the whale-path back to the north.

   • 1902, The Seafarer, Cook and Tinker's translation:

     Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea.

   • 1989, Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned, page 108:

     The whale speeding along on the whale path, as Beowulf called it.