blubber Betydning & definition

Eksempler på blubber

• A blubber-fired snow melter yielded extra water in winter.

• The people met their vitamin requirements by eating raw animal products, such as muktuk (whale skin and blubber), meat and fish.

• The most significant aspect of the refit was the addition of a trywork - an on-board hearth to convert blubber into whale oil.

• The special blubber-fired boilers had disappeared, apparently thrown overboard.

• They thought the whale had washed ashore recently, and were hot on the trail of a governmental blubber flub-up.

• Thick blubber deposits provide insulation, as well, and blood vessels in the flippers and legs have evolved intricate structures to preserve heat.

• The skin has to be regrown by blood vessels reaching through the blubber.

• The purpose of whaling was largely to collect blubber.