A person who hunts whales or works in the whale-hunting industry, historically responsible for rendering blubber into oil.
Compound of blubber (from Old Norse blubra or Dutch blubber, whale fat) plus man. Emerged during the height of whaling industries in the 17th-19th centuries.
Blubbermen were essential to early modern economies—whale oil powered the lamps of the industrial world and funded empires, yet these workers faced brutal conditions and the whales faced near-extinction!
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