amphibby

Updated: May 13, 2025

"There's no sich rope in the ship." "I know that well enough; but an amphibby, as I understand it, is a new sort of whale, that comes up to breathe, like all of that family, as old Dr. Mitchell, of Cow Neck, calls the critturs. So the furrin officers thought we must be of the amphibby family, to live so much under water, as it seemed to them.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers