Both Uses of
migrate
in
Moby Dick
- So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.†
Chpt 43-45
- The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence be looked for.†
Chpt 43-45 *
Definition:
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(migrate) move from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally