Definition of Grampas

1. Noun. (plural of grampa) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grampas

1. grampa [n] - See also: grampa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grampas

gramme
gramme machine
grammer
grammes
grammotoxin
gramoche
gramoches
gramophone
gramophones
gramophonic
gramophonist
gramophonists
gramophony
gramp
grampa
grampas (current term)
grampies
gramps
grampus
grampuses
grampy
grams
gran
gran casa
grana
granadilla
granadilla tree
granadilla wood
granadillas
granadillo

Literary usage of Grampas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Wrote from Harwich, that a great fish was seen rolling in the sands near that place as big as a grampas, but painted like a mackrell: the seamen soon ..."

2. The Dog's Book of Verse (1916)
"'N Rover walked off dignified An' curled his back up 'gainst th' wall — If grampas ain't got manners, w'y, He isn't goin' to care at all. ..."

3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... From the horrid boa-constrictor That has scared us in the pictur', From the Indians of the Pampas Who would dine upon their grampas, From every beast ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... a great Fish that commeth once a day to feed along the shoare, which is like a grampas. Hee runneth very neere the shoare, and driveth great ..."

5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
"... From the horrid boa-constrictor That has scared us in the pictur', From the Indians of the Pampas Who would dine upon their grampas, 4° From every beast ..."

6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... a great Fish that commeth once a day to feed along the shoare, which is like a grampas. Hee runneth very neere the shoare, and driveth great ..."

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