Both Uses of
broker
in
Moby Dick
- What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish?†
Chpt 88-90 *
- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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(broker as in: she is a broker) someone who facilitates transactions between others (such as a real estate or stock broker)
or:
the process of facilitating an agreement between others