Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In whaling, the detachable barbed head of a harpoon.
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Triced up to the jib stay was the long harpoon with its head, known as the 'lily-iron.'
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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