All 3 Uses of
baffle
in
Moby Dick
- The three boats, in the first fury of the whale's headlong rush, bumped the German's aside with such force, that both Derick and his baffled harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three flying keels.†
Chpt 79-81
- * So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud.†
Chpt 133-135
- —There's a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges:—like a hawk's beak it pecks my brain.†
Chpt 133-135 *
Definition:
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(baffle as in: baffled her) to completely confuse someone