°One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whale fishery.
"1890: Century Illustrated Magazine, XL, 511 - For a whaler's wife to have been "'round the Cape" half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary."
°A vessel for hunting whales.
"1863: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, v. - But o' Thursday t' Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port."