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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In whale-fishing, the chief harpooner: so called as being the director of the cutting operations in clearing the whale of its speck or blubber and bones.
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chained_bear commented on the word specktioneer
An officer (or crewman?) on a whaling ship. "...wetted by the two buckets of fresh water they drank, standing there on the deck, their spokesman, the specktioneer, soon made their story plain..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 273
February 23, 2008