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English
Noun
whale's guide
- (obsolete) A type of small fish thought to accompany the whale.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:it is in shape like a Gudgeon, and both the Latines and we, call it the Whales-guide; for, she doth ever follow him, suffering her selfe, as easily to be led and turned by him, as a ship is directed and turned by a sterne […].
1730, Matthew Concanen, The Speculatist, page 267:This tiny Creature is the Whale's Guide, and therefore protected by him, while all the finny Race besides are his Prey.