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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
whale .
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Examples
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As for Jim, that active descendant of the Celts failed to exhibit that alarm and apprehension which should appertain to a young gentleman of his age when facing an antagonist who had "whaled" him repeatedly.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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We sat in the wagon circling round and round, sometimes in the ditch and sometimes out of it, and Davie "whaled" the horse with his whip and abused him with his tongue.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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We sat in the wagon circling round and round, sometimes in the ditch and sometimes out of it, and Davie "whaled" the horse with his whip and abused him with his tongue.
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The days when union activists regularly mixed it up with company goon squads, when Pinkertons armed with clubs whaled away on picket lines, cracking heads and causing havoc, when industrial riots, mass arrests and blood on the streets made the front pages of the newspapers.
David Macaray: Do We Need a Heavy Dose of Street Theater? David Macaray 2011
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The days when union activists regularly mixed it up with company goon squads, when Pinkertons armed with clubs whaled away on picket lines, cracking heads and causing havoc, when industrial riots, mass arrests and blood on the streets made the front pages of the newspapers.
David Macaray: Do We Need a Heavy Dose of Street Theater? David Macaray 2011
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That cowboy came back the next day, bitched and just hauled off, whaled on Boss George.
Think being nobody's easy? Try it with the lights out. James Lloyd Davis 2011
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I think he'd have whaled all this musical and artistic tomfoolery out of you.
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The days when union activists regularly mixed it up with company goon squads, when Pinkertons armed with clubs whaled away on picket lines, cracking heads and causing havoc, when industrial riots, mass arrests and blood on the streets made the front pages of the newspapers.
David Macaray: Do We Need a Heavy Dose of Street Theater? David Macaray 2011
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Off-duty cops in Vancouver are alleged to have robbed and severely beaten a deliveryman, saying as they whaled on the guy, "We don't like brown people, buddy."
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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"We were being whaled on by Speaker Gingrich and didn't respond well in South Carolina," Romney said.
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