whaling gun meaning in Hindi

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He had Sir Joseph Whitworth manufacture him some rifled whaling guns and shells.
Other departments made bicycle components, while the cannon department made shafts, connecting rods, forgings and whale guns.
The ship was equipped with seven whale guns separately mounted on the forecastle, each firing a harpoon and grenade.
The following spring, he went out in the 175-ton brig " William F . Safford " to test his experimental whaling guns.
It is known that while in Norwich, he engaged in the manufacture of whaling guns and he is credited with the invention of the explosive bullet used to kill whales.
The Steamship Room illustrates the technological evolution of maritime power from wind to steam, while the second-floor displays include three photomurals of the early San Francisco waterfront, lithographic stones, scrimshaw and whaling guns.
In 1856, Phillip Rechten, of Bremen, Germany, together with the gunsmith Cordes, produced a double-barreled whale gun ( and later claimed credit for Foyn's success ) with a separate harpoon and bomb-lance.
In its early years, expeditions on the " Westward " were hunting expeditions, with " a Norwegian whale gun shooting harpoons fitted with time fuse bombs, a 10-horse gasoline winch with thirty-six hundred feet [ 1097 meters ] of quarter-inch [ 0.6 cm ] plow steel cable as a fishing line, and all of the accessories for'scrapping it out'with fifty-ton [ about 45 metric tonnes ] whales ".

noun.

a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale