The numerous plates of those whalebones with which the animal's palate is furnished serve to strain like fishermen's nets; nothing can get out of them again, and the mass of crustaceans is ingulfed in the whale's vast stomach, as the soup of your dinner in yours.

It was whalebone of his bone, or something of that sort.

We got the oil and the whalebone out of the whales which we had caught.