grunter

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) (Genus, pogonias. Cuvier.) One of the popular names of the fish called by naturalists the Banded Drum. It is common to the Atlantic coast south of New York. Grunts and Young Sheepskin are other names of the same fish.--Nat. Hist. of New York.


2) A hog.--Craven Dialect.

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