Assertion: sperm whale's oil | /r/CapableOf | mean in their instructions
Facets:
value: to their ship captains
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Yankee whaling merchants sometimes adopted the phrase “brown oil is better than no oil,” in their instructions to their ship captains meaning that rather than return home without having filled the ship with sperm oil, they were to take other whales instead.