hair seal

noun

hair seal

any earless seal, esp the harbour seal, having a coat of stiff hair with no underfur

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First recorded in 1815–25

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The hair seal, the otter, and the sea lion were found by the thousand.

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Many hair seal were seen about the island, and three were killed.

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It is made from the skins of the hair seal, the supply coming from all parts of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Of sealskins there are two distinct classes, the fur seals and the hair seals.

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Some were small cakes, which had been formed that winter, and upon some of these arctic birds and hair seals sported.

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