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Meanings of grampus in English
Portuguese
baleia-assassina Catalan
orca 
Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.
Portuguese
golfinho-de-risso Catalan
dofí de risso Usage of grampus in English
1
Gulls darted overhead; and past the canoe dived the great floundering grampus.
2
Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus.
3
The grampus, thirty feet long, never killed on the same account.
4
I, for one, was puffing, too- Iwaspanting like a grampus.
5
I gasped and coughed like a grampus: the stalk was down my throat still.
6
See, the knaves be bringing their grampus across the court.
7
But I could not resist giving that grampus Corbucci one bad moment on account.
8
He roared like a grampus but had an immense success.
9
His snufflings, and snortings, and splashings were like those of a grampus at play.
10
Which o' the three are you speaking of-thegrampus?
11
Dark was comforting himself with a pinch of snuff, snorting over it like a perfect grampus.
12
If the girl's willin' to have me I'll wed her in spite o' the old grampus.
13
See here: his line is quiverin' as if a grampus was nibblin' at the end of it.
14
Nor a grampus, nor a porpoise even?
15
The sea-leopard is its competitor, though not nearly so ferocious as the grampus, of whom it lives in terror.
16
Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus, and the rippling at the cut-water.
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