Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A horse which has the habit of emitting a sound during expiration, when suddenly moved or startled.
  • noun One that grunts. A hog.
  • noun A fish of the family Triglidæ and genus Prionotus: so called along parts of the eastern coast of the United States. See grumbler, 2.
  • noun An iron rod with a hook at the end, used by founders.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog.
  • noun (Zoöl.) One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2.
  • noun (Brass Founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who grunts.
  • noun A group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
  • noun dated A hook used in lifting a crucible.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun domestic swine
  • noun a person who grunts

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Examples

  • Paul had had abominable luck all day, the only thing he landed being what we Bolderhead boys called a "grunter" -- a frog-mouthed fish of most unpleasant aspect and of absolutely no use as food.

    Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster

  • Horses suffering with pleurisy, pleurodynia, or rheumatism, and other affections accompanied with much pain, will grunt when moved, or when the pain is aggravated, but grunting under these circumstances does not justify the term of "grunter" being applied to the horse, as the grunting ceases when the animal recovers from the disease that causes the pain.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Then keep rereading it until you understand it. grunter

    Rumor Killer: Why Chris Pine Probably Won’t Be Cast as Captain America | /Film 2010

  • One guy tried to tell the grunter how to lift weights properly.

    Training the Monkeys: Gym Etiquette « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • Sports Psychology Grunting Grumbles Is your tennis partner a grunter?

    Week in Ideas 2010

  • Unfortunately, on the rare occasion that Stampy would ensnare a stallion, I would learn of his presence by extended patterns of her snorts and moans: she was a grunter.

    I do believe I came with a hat. | clusterflock 2009

  • Ms. Oudin's not much of a grunter -- on the Maria Sharapova index, we'd put her at a 3, or about a third of a Sharapova yelp.

    We Believed, Then Brazil Pounced 2009

  • "Manscaping," she says, "is taking some raw, unfinished, barely civilized grunter of a guy and making him fabulous."

    Daniel Krotz: Manscaping 2009

  • We were sitting at home, half dazed from lack of sleep, with a 2-week-old grunter ready to burst into paroxysms of anger at the smallest slight, when we got a bill for $16,000 in the mail!

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Not to Do E-Commerce 2009

  • This may remind tennis fans of Monica Seles, a world-famous grunter, whose moans and growls - clocking in at over 90 decibels, prompted her 1992 quarter-final Wimbledon opponent to insist that she not be allowed to make noise.

    Leslie Goldman: Unnh! Grrah! Sigh 2008

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