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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade.
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Seabury nevertheless decided to tackle it, and thrust a harpoon deep into the creature's neck.
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The carpenter and blacksmith hurriedly fashion a new one, and Ahab has a new harpoon fashioned from the finest iron.
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The crotch is a notched stick which holds both harpoons.
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The dolphins and porpoises are hunted either with hand harpoons or in drive fisheries.
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The steam-powered harpoon appeared in 1864.
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Trondur had hurried forward to fetch his biggest harpoon which he kept strapped across the bows.
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Two harpoons are usually thrown in quick succession.