1 Captain Ahab did not name himself.
2 It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do.
3 Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name.
4 In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 5 Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and suggest another.
6 And yet the old squaw Tistig, at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic.
7 Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness.
8 But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there.
9 His grand distinguishing feature, the fin, from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object.
10 Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders.
11 The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.
12 At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
13 DEVIL-DAM, I do not know the origin of; TIT-BIT is obvious; PEQUOD, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes.
14 When, as I opine, in the course of time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.
15 They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 16 The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.
17 In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled "A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented CROW'S-NEST of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's good craft.
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