Sentence:  The extraordinary number of these <WSD>sea lawyers</WSD> present, was equalled only by their rapacity. Before we began cutting-in, they had already commenced their meal. Taking advantage of a heave of the swell, a shark would wriggle up on top of the whale, and setting his wide opened mouth against the solid blubber, would bite out a piece as round as and about the size of a man's head. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A shark.