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growler|ˈgraʊlə(r)|
[f. growl v.3 + -er1.]
1. One who or something which growls.
1753World No. 7. 38 If these Growlers..would content themselves with giving repeated histories of their own ill⁓fortunes. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxiv, Haven't you slept enough, growler? 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Growlers, smart, but sometimes all-jaw seamen, who have seen some service, but indulge in invectives against restrictive regulations, rendering them undesirable men. 1880Harper's Mag. LX. 622 But the routs and the revelry were no more agreeable to loyalist growlers like Judge Jones than to the patriots.
2. slang or colloq. A four-wheeled cab.
1865M. Collins Who is Heir? II. 231 His servant Norris followed with his baggage in a ‘growler’. 1888J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge II. xxii. 111 A splended footman..called for a four-wheeled cab..; it was the most debauched-looking ‘growler’ that ever was seen.
3. The name of certain fishes.
a. A species of black-bass (see quot.).
b. The grunt or pig-fish (Cent. Dict.).
1880Günther Fishes 393 One species from the fresh waters of the United States (Grystes salmonoides)..is known by the name of ‘Growler’.
4. U.S. slang. A vessel in which beer is fetched. to rush the growler (see quot. 1888).
1888N.Y. Herald 29 July (Farmer), The employment by hands in a number of factories of boys and girls, under ten and thirteen years, to fetch beer for them, or in other words to rush the growler.
5. A compact mass of floating ice, smaller than a ‘bergy bit’, but of such a size that waves do not quite break over its top; a small iceberg.
1912Standard 4 May 7/7 He thought the distinction between icebergs and growlers was that the growler was an iceberg with very little protruding above the water. 1922Joyce Ulysses 609, I seen icebergs plenty, growlers. 1934Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXIII. 393 The faces [of the glaciers] break away in small pieces making brash and growlers common around the islands. 1958New Scientist 10 July 359/1 As it weathers away, a berg becomes known as a ‘bergy bit’.., and finally a ‘growler’ (when almost awash).
6. Electr. An electromagnet with two poles designed to receive an armature, used for testing the windings for short circuits.
If a short circuit exists in the armature coils its presence is indicated by a ‘growling’ noise.
1922J. C. Wright Automotive Repair II. 73 For making tests showing the general conditions of an armature, an instrument commonly known as a ‘growler’ is desirable. 1951H. Cotton in P. Kemp Electr. Engin. II. 30 The growler is applied to the armature as shown..and a thin steel rule held to the teeth at a distance equal to the coil pitch away from the centre line. 1961K. Wilkinson Armatures & Field Coils v. 104 The growler is a very simple and extremely valuable piece of test equipment.
7. dial. and slang. A dog. (In quot. 1822 fig.)
1822‘Real Paddy’ Real Life Ireland xii. 264 All the blackguards backed the growler. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 154 Barker or growler. |