whale's way

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English

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"Beowulf answered the queen, “I wished that when I had let float my sea-wood on the whale's way, when I set sail with my war-band, to answer with my life the challenge of Grendel.”"
"A long season we spent on the whale's way, with the wind biting through our tunics[.]"
"While their great canoes, carrying many cannon, span the whale's way, their warriors bestride our land and their settlers plant behind them."

Calque of Old English hranrād, from hran (“whale”) + rād (“road, way”).

the whale's way (canonical)

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