different between harpoon vs babiche

English

Etymology

From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a rare variant of Latin harpag?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (harpág?, “hook”), from ?????? (harpáz?, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”). Doublet of harpagon.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: härpo?on?, IPA^(key): /h????pu?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: härpo?on?, IPA^(key): /h???pu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n
• Hyphenation: har?poon

Noun

harpoon (plural harpoons)

1. A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
2. (slang) A harmonica.

Derived terms

• harpoon fork

Translations

Verb

harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle harpooned)

1. (transitive) To shoot something with a harpoon.

Derived terms

• harpooner

Translations

See also

• spear

English

Etymology

First attested around 1800–10. From Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”), diminutive of ápapi, from Proto-Algonquian *a?lapa·py, *a?lapa·pyi, from *a?lapy- (“net”) + *-a·py (“string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??bi??/, /bæ?bi??/
• Hyphenation: ba?biche

Noun

babiche (plural babiches)

1. (Canada, US) Thong(s) of rawhide or sinew used as cord, lacing, or webbing, in the manufacture of snowshoes, braided straps and tumplines, fishing and harpoon lines, knit bags, etc.

See also

• Gadacz, René R. (2008). “Babiche”, in the Canadian Encyclopedia.

References

• “babiche” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “babiche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “babiche” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

French

Etymology

From Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”). See above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.bi?/

Noun

babiche f (plural babiches)

1. babiche

Related terms

• babichon

Further reading

• “babiche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).