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Definition of Harpooning

Harpooning
Harpoon Har*poon", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harpooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Harpooning.] To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.

Meaning of Harpooning from wikipedia

- A harpoon is a long, spear-like projectile used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other hunting to shoot, kill, and capture large fish or marine mammals...
- The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The AGM-84E...
- Look up harpoon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or other aquatic animals such...
- A harpoon reaction is a type of chemical reaction, first proposed by Michael Polanyi in 1920, whose mechanism (also called the harpooning mechanism) involves...
- The Semliki harpoon, also known as the Katanda harpoon, refers to a group of complex barbed harpoon heads carved from bone, which were found at an archaeologic...
- the US Navy ordered a revised design which entered service as the PV-2 Harpoon for anti-submarine work. At the start of the war, Lockheed proposed military...
- Harpoon II is a computer wargame published by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1994 for DOS. This was the second game in the Harpoon series. It was ported to the...
- A harpoon cannon is a whaling implement developed in the late 19th century and most used in the 20th century. It would be mounted on the bow of a whale...
- Operation Harpoon may refer to: Operation Harpoon (1942), an Allied convoy sent to supply Malta in the Axis-dominated central Mediterranean Sea Operation...
- engines throughout much of the twentieth century. It was designed with a harpoon gun mounted at its bow and was fast enough to chase and catch rorquals...