Usually means: Curved, rounded hull of ship.
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  1. whaleback: Merriam-Webster
  2. whaleback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whaleback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whaleback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Whaleback, whaleback: Wordnik
  6. whaleback: Wiktionary
  7. whaleback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. whaleback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. whaleback: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. whaleback: Dictionary.com
  11. Whaleback (ski area), Whaleback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. whaleback: FreeDictionary.org
  13. whaleback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (whaleback)

noun:  (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
noun:  (geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.

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