sperm whale
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- 0
- body_part_used
- teeth, lower jaw
- description
- A large whale species whose teeth and lower jaw are repurposed as decorative and functional elements on the Pequod, symbolizing the ship's barbaric nature.
- purpose_on_ship
- pins, tiller
- symbolism
- enemies of the ship
Relationships
- referenced_byPequod
- context
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- source
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- her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:08:13.148Z
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