Meanings of gruff word in английском

Tako greeted them with a gesture and a gruff word and pushed us past them into the car.

He picked up his mitt and took his position at first with a gruff word to his players.

He himself would receive him with a gruff word or two of admonition and the whole affair should be dismissed.

There were footsteps in the stillness, and a gruff word or two, and the steps came this way, and nearer, fast.

But the new foreman, when he got outside, turned back for one gruff word,-"I'lltry to please yu'." That was all.

One after another, several natives came to make small purchases, but, not being boys any longer, a gruff word was enough to send them running.

When he spoke, it was with the common gestures punctuated with the gruff words of everyday speech.

After a few gruff words and not-so-gentle nudges from the harried women, she tried to stay out of the way.