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

Thresh′el, a flail; Thresh′er, the fox-shark; Thresh′er-whale, the grampus.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

On the 26th of December we saw several albicores, dolphins, and grampus, and shoals of flying fish; lat. at noon 22.

From An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Willyams, Cooper

It was my first visit to Sydney since her marriage, and I enjoyed myself much, and threw off my cough, and could get up stairs without blowing like a grampus.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund