Moby-Dick

  1. Proper noun.  A work originally titled ''The Whale'' in 1851 by Herman Melville, a highly symbolic story about a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab, which begins “Call me Ishmael.”.
  2. Proper noun.  The elusive white whale hunted in this novel.

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