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plural harpoons
A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish. examples
(slang) A harmonica. quotations
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana.
1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster (lyrics and music), “Me and Bobby McGee”
third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned
(transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon. quotations examples
Pilot whales, also known as blackfish, were fairly plentiful, and Mundus would harpoon one or two, haul them out onto the beach, and butcher them.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 176