Nantucket sleigh ride

Nantucket sleighride Nantucket sleigh-ride English Nantucket sleighride thumb|A Nantucket sleigh ride Alternative forms en Nantucket sleigh-ride, en Nantucket sleighride Pronunciation en En-au-Nantucket sleigh ride.ogg AU Noun en idiomatic An instance of the dragging of a whaleboat across the surface of a body of water by a harpooned whale. en Dec 31 1905 A. B. Hawser My Nantucket sleigh ride http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/500529162.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec%2031,%201905&author=&pub=Boston%20Daily%20Globe%20%281872-1922%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=MY%20NANTUCKET%20SLEIGH%20RIDE. Boston Globe 22 August 2013 SM10 If we can fasten a good fish tomorrow when you are with us," said the captain of the New Bedford whaling bark Morning Star to me, "I will try to give you a Nantucket sleigh ride." en July 29 2007 w:Bruce Barcott In the Shadow of Moby-Dick http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Barcott-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 New York Times 22 August 2013 [The] crew pushed out in a small boat and pierced the whale with a harpoon attached to a rope secured to the boat. Then it was hang on for your life. “A whale barreling along at the surface would take the men on the proverbial Nantucket sleigh ride, a bone-jarring, terrifying and, at times, no doubt exhilarating trip over the waves,” Dolin writes. https://web.archive.org/web/20240623072426/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Barcott-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 23 June 2024 en idiomatic by extension An instance of the dragging of a boat (especially a small one) by an aquatic creature or vessel attached to it by a rope or other line. 1974, Peter Benchley, Jaws (2012 Random House edition), 9780307828668, p. 89 (Google preview): They said they planned to hook the shark with a gaff and go for a "Nantucket sleigh ride." en August 26 2002 Stephen C. Sautner Outdoors: Just in the Nick of Time, A Largemouth Bass Bites http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/sports/outdoors-just-in-the-nick-of-time-a-largemouth-bass-bites.html New York Times 22 August 2013 Still fresh in my mind was the 15-pound striped bass that took me on a miniature Nantucket sleigh ride around Sandy Hook Bay last fall. https://web.archive.org/web/20251230164140/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/sports/outdoors-just-in-the-nick-of-time-a-largemouth-bass-bites.html 30 December 2025 en Drachinifel The Drydock - Episode 310 11 August 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMIAcGT6dPA https://web.archive.org/web/20240814014059/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMIAcGT6dPA 14 August 2024 13 August 2024 24:28 The only note of caution that I would put down is, look at what happens to modern fishing vessels when they occasionally accidentally catch a modern submarine; now, granted, of course modern submarines are far more powerful in terms of their propulsion systems, and far larger, often massively outmassing the fishing vessels that they capture, so the fishing vessels either end up being dragged under or if they're lucky taken on a bit of a Nantucket sleighride before they cut their lines or the net breaks Usage notes Use of this term is sometimes attributed to Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick, but actually is not found in the text of his published works. References en Whaling