Both Uses of
comet
in
Moby Dick
- The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.†
Chpt 40-42
- But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.†
Chpt 52-54 *
Definition:
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(comet) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit