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Definition harpoon

Etymology

From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpag?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (harpág?, “hook”), from ?????? (harpáz?, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”).

Noun

harpoon (plural harpoons)

1. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
2. (slang) A harmonica.

Verb

harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned)

1. (transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon.

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