Citations:gam

group of whales or porpoises

 * 1972, The Gulf of Mexico ISBN 0670357596, page 95:
 * I shall be forever grateful that I finally flew the length of the coast at low level with an amiable pilot who circled every flock of geese and gam of porpoises that caught my eye.
 * 1976, Sportfishing for Sharks, page 259:
 * The destruction that a gam of porpoises or pilot whales can wreak is impressive. As for the actual killing of the animals, it can be done quickly with a high-powered rifle.
 * 2009, Howard E. Adkins, The Dash of Dr. Todd ISBN 1450069630, page 49:
 * stopping short of the water and delaying casting off as the Ellie Mae took them closer to the gam of whales.

gathering of whalers

 * 1851, Henry Theodore Cheever, The whale and his captors, or, The whaleman's adventures:
 * absent thirty or more months, to have a gam of a day with a fresh competitor just arrived out with all the news from home. Such a gam gives matter of talk and old newspaper reading for a month, and nobody can tell how pleasant it is

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 * 1869, Edwin Waugh, Lancashire Sketches, page 25:
 * And then, turning to me, he said, "Nea, then, measter, yo'n yer some gam, if yor spare' t."