The state of a whale when he is seriously alarmed.
·p.p. & ·adj Worried; flurried; frightened. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Hurried, vexed, over-fatigued, perhaps like a galley slave. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
frightened. Exm. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose