Both Uses of
cataract
in
Moby Dick
- Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(cataract) clouding of the natural lens of the eye