grampus
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He continues: “Water dog, grampus, grumpus, mollyhugger, horny head, devil dog.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018
It h a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I wakened about seven bells in the morning watch, just for a moment, you know, and you were snoring like a grampus.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
But the cook was not long in discovering the futility of his efforts and gave up the chase, puffing and blowing like a grampus.
From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer
Hull, blowing like a grampus, had swam up to them.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.
From Time Magazine Archive
An escort of 'thrashers,' or grampuses, accompanied me.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
“Don’t you remember, you mistook those grampuses we came across the other day when going to Seaview for whales?”
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by Greene, John B.
Several grampuses were seen at the anchorage, also many dugongs and turtles.
To this group belong the sperm-whale, and the various forms of bottle-noses, black-fish, grampuses, narwhals, dolphins, porpoises, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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