All 3 Uses of
protrude
in
Moby Dick
- The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.†
Chpt 46-48 *protruding = sticking out
- They deified the crocodile of the Nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of protrusion.†
Chpt 79-81protrusion = something that sticks out
- As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.†
Chpt 79-81protruded = stuck out
Definition:
to stick out from