landwhale
noun3
- A. Richard Crabb, The Hybrid-Corn Makers: Prophets of Plenty (1947), p. 10: "This [c. 1850] was the era of the 'land whale,' when fat hogs, fed two years or more on a concentrated corn diet, supplied the oil that largely replaced the whale oil used earlier so extensively in the seaboard area of the United States."
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