All 4 Uses of
mutiny
in
Moby Dick
- They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no prospective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.†
Chpt 46-48
- Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and down there, defied the worst the pistols could do; but gave the captain to understand distinctly, that his (Steelkilt's) death would be the signal for a murderous mutiny on the part of all hands.†
Chpt 52-54
- At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the whole, he would do so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.†
Chpt 52-54
- Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest.†
Chpt 52-54 *
Definition:
open rebellion against authority -- especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers