A gam of whales (or a float, gam, herd, mob, pod, run, school, shoal, troup)
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.
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A gam of whales (or a float, gam, herd, mob, pod, run, school, shoal, troup)
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.
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What follows are depictions of stranded whales, 16th c-18th c, —and, often, of the crowds that gathered to examine them.
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OED: gam
Perhaps < English regional gam, variant of game n. (see gam at game n. β. forms). Borrowing < a cognate of game n. in one of the modern Scandinavian languages is perhaps also possible (see forms at game n.), although there is no evidence for this particular use.
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.
1. colloq. Originally: a social meeting among whalers at sea. Later more generally: a social gathering, a ‘get-together’; a chat, a gossip. Chiefly U.S. regional (New England) in the extended sense.
Perhaps < English regional gam, variant of game n. (see gam at game n. β. forms). Borrowing < a cognate of game n. in one of the modern Scandinavian languages is perhaps also possible (see forms at game n.), although there is no evidence for this particular use.
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.
1. colloq. Originally: a social meeting among whalers at sea. Later more generally: a social gathering, a ‘get-together’; a chat, a gossip. Chiefly U.S. regional (New England) in the extended sense.
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kk, “A gam of whales (or a float, gam, herd, mob, pod, run, school, shoal, troup)
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.,” The Middle Shore, accessed May 15, 2024, https://middleshore.omeka.net/items/show/64.
Alternatively, perhaps shortened < gammon n.4 2.,” The Middle Shore, accessed May 15, 2024, https://middleshore.omeka.net/items/show/64.