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Grampus

noun
(pl. grampuses)
1.
Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.  Synonyms: killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf.
2.
Slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas.  Synonym: Grampus griseus.



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"Grampus" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good deal more to sleep off yet. There he lies, flat on his back, blowing as hard as a grampus. Better leave him as long as we can. We'll rouse him as soon as we turn Greenwich reach. Tom, didn't you think his nose loomed ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... neat and tidy, my dear," said the keeper. "Now I must just tuck you away in the hollow tree before old Grampus sneaks round and sees you, for if he should it will be almost as much ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard

... obtained on the 10th of May, 1759, for the Grampus sloop; but the proper master having unexpectedly returned to her, the appointment did not take place. Four days after he was made master of the Garland; when, upon inquiry, it was found, that he could not join her, as the ship had already sailed. On the next ...
— Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, • A. Kippis

... me, Sir John, I once saw a man, on the coast of Patagonia—a savage, to be sure, and not a philosopher, as this fellow pretends to be—who had an outrigger of this sort, as long as a ship's ringtail-boom. And what was he, after all, but a poor devil who did not know a sea-lion from a grampus!" ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... red-faced and out of breath, had slowed down into a shambling walk and was puffing and blowing like a grampus. As he came ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly

... concert here, and made one hundred and fifty roubles clear profit. He roared like a grampus but had an immense success. I am awfully sorry I did not study singing; I could have roared too, as my throat is rich in husky elements, and they say I have a real octave. I should have earned money, and been a favourite with ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... and the rest marched throw y^e woods to see y^e land, if any fit place might be for their dwelling. They came also to y^e place whom they saw the Indeans y^e night before, & found they had been cuting up a great fish like a grampus, being some 2. inches thike of fate like a hogg, some peeces wher of they had left by y^e way; and y^e shallop found 2. more of these fishes dead on y^e sands, thing usuall after storms in y^t place, by reason of y^e great flats of sand that lye of. So they ranged up and doune all y^t ...
— Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II - The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 • Various



Words linked to "Grampus" :   Orcinus, dolphin, sea wolf, genus Orcinus



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