whale's guide

English

Noun

whale's guide

  1. (obsolete) A type of small fish thought to accompany the whale.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      it is in shape like a Gudgeon, and both the Latines and we, call it the Whales-guide; for, she doth ever follow him, suffering her selfe, as easily to be led and turned by him, as a ship is directed and turned by a sterne […].
    • 1730, Matthew Concanen, The Speculatist, p.267:
      This tiny Creature is the Whale's Guide, and therefore protected by him, while all the finny Race besides are his Prey.
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