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Definition of Grunters
1. grunter [n] - See also: grunter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grunters
Literary usage of Grunters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"... Trumpeters—The Morwong Family—grunters and Boar-Fishes—The Bream Family—Red
Mullets or Goat-Fishes. ..."
2. The Wayside of Life: Being a Collection of Poems, Essays and Paragraphs by Laura Smith Ellsworth, William B. Connolly (1906)
"FOB THE grunters THERE'S too much borrowed trouble In your world of strife, And
those who borrow are still in debt When they leave earthly life. ..."
3. The Jonny-cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of by Thomas Robinson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Hazard (1915)
"There were more than twenty boys fishing there for grunters. ... This was filled
heaping full \vith grunters; not another fish of any kind had been cotched ..."
4. Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery by Matthew Horace Hayes (1903)
"Although it is true that the large majority of grunters are more liable to become
roarers than non-grunters, we can no more consider a grunter unsound on ..."
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