All 6 Uses of
implement
in
Moby Dick
- You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.†
Chpt 1-3
- …that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.†
Chpt 52-54
- Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.†
Chpt 55-57
- Now it needs a strong, nervous arm to strike the first iron into the fish; for often, in what is called a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to the distance of twenty or thirty feet.†
Chpt 61-63
- *The whaling-spade used for cutting-in is made of the very best steel; is about the bigness of a man's spread hand; and in general shape, corresponds to the garden implement after which it is named; only its sides are perfectly flat, and its upper end considerably narrower than the lower.†
Chpt 64-66
- All the numerous implements which have been in use are likewise faithfully cleansed and put away.†
Chpt 97-99 *
Definition:
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(implement as in: a small implement) a small tool or other useful object