Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One, such as a dog, that growls.
- n. A small iceberg.
- n. Informal A container, such as a pail or pitcher, that is used for carrying beer.
- n. Electricity An electromagnetic device with two poles, used for magnetizing, demagnetizing, and finding short-circuited coils.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who growls.
- n. A certain fish: same as grunt, 2.
- n. A four-wheeled cab.
- n. A vessel, as a pitcher, jug, pail, or can, brought by a customer for beer.
Wiktionary
- n. A person, creature or thing that growls.
- n. A cab with four wheels.
- n. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
- n. A kind of jug used to carry beer.
- n. A Yorkshire term for a pork pie.
- n. The vulva.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who growls.
- n. The large-mouthed black bass.
- n. A four-wheeled cab.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl
- n. a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping
Examples
“BTW the growler is the only call that has consistently worked for me.”
“Hunter said a vessel off the Cape west coast in February 2002 reported a "growler" - the remains of an iceberg - less than five metres long with freeboard (height above water level) below one metre.”
“A growler was a metal pail, its inside often smeared with lard.”
“A growler is an iceberg that sits just below the surface of the water.”
“The captain wanted to maroon the growler, that is, to place him on an island with some provisions and sail away.”
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
“The upside to having a growler is the beer is fresher than if it was bottled, and you get a large quantity of beer (about five pints, depending on the size of the growler) for much cheaper than if you had bought five pints individually at a bar.”
“Has anyone else had success with the buck "growler" or buck "roar" type grunt call?”
“I have shot more deer than I can remember (no brag, just fact) and the only call that has worked for me is the buck "growler" type grunt call.”
“Their Stout, unfortunately only in sample packs and growlers .. no not THAT kind of growler .. is amazing!”
“The Kalachakra system calls the north node planet either Rahu, literally "growler," or the dragon's head planet, and the south node planet either Kalagni, which means "fire of time," or the dragon's tail planet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘growler’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 133 more...
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Wort to the wise
Brewing terms
wort, gruit, metheglin, mead, perry, mulsum, finings, irish moss, malt, hops, morat, melomel and 41 more...
hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 2, 2012
reesetee See also clarence. Oct 22, 2008
chained_bear Another usage, as a horse-drawn conveyance, on barouche. Oct 21, 2008
chained_bear "Every now and then a 'viper' or 'growler'—a whitewater curler on top of a wave that pops the bow with the speed of a striking snake—would hit the bow. To give the crew warning, Andy, who could see clearly over the bow into the oncoming seas, shouted over the loudhailer, 'Move! Watch out! Watch out!' And the crew ducked and held on."
—Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand with Malcolm MacPherson, Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs, Jun 22, 2008
yarb Slang for a bottom burp where I come from. Jun 5, 2008
reesetee Oh yes--one of the many microbreweries in my area will gladly send you home with a growler of beer, if you're so inclined. :-) Apr 28, 2008
gangerh Bon Voyage, c_b. Apr 28, 2008
chained_bear Mollusque, I must have missed this page four months ago. I just read the following in a book, and flagged this word as having a meaning I was unaware of:
"A rough, kindly old laboring man was this uncle who sat in his snug parlor in his shirt sleeves during our stay, sent one of the children to the corner for a growler of beer, and told us bluntly we were idiots to think of shipping on a whaling voyage."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 4 Apr 27, 2008
mollusque Also a vessel for fetching beer, a small iceberg, and a clarence. Dec 21, 2007
bilby Never heard it. Obviously I don't get (give?) enough. Dec 20, 2007
burntsox An Australian friend giggled when this came up in a conversation. Apparently it's slang for cunnilingus there, but I never found out why she was giggling! ;) Dec 20, 2007