(zoology) Any member of family Balaenopteridae of rorqual whales.

(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern. / (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

(chiefly UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes Canada, rare in the US) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

Alternative spelling of cease-fire