I’ve heard of sperm whales and blue whales, but gun whales?
The picture (click to enlarge) is from the café on Lindisfarne.
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It's all right, Peter, but as one word, according to the Shorter Oxford.
Ronnie
Posted by: Ronnie | 22/06/2010 at 15:39
The OED doesn't accept it in the lemma. It shows gunwhale as a 19th-century spelling, but even so it has only one quotation and that's from 1800. It is also incompatible with the etymological association with wall.
Posted by: Peter Harvey | 22/06/2010 at 18:34