marine_animal

sperm whale

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Properties

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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
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    source_text
    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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    2026-03-02T00:08:13.148Z
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