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▪ I. grouser1|ˈgraʊsə(r)|
[f. grouse v.1 + -er1.]
One who goes grousing; a grouse-shooter.
1865E. Yates Business of Pleasure I. 186 The manufacturing gentry..are tremendously keen grousers.
▪ II. grouser2 Hydraulics.|ˈgraʊsə(r)|
[Origin unknown.]
An iron-pointed pile or timber attached to a boat or other floating object as a means of anchorage or of keeping the object in position.
1876Rep. Chief of Engineers II. ii. 403 (in Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl.). 1884Eissler Mod. High Explosives iii. vii. 329 To overcome the motion of the waves, and the current, they are provided with a submarine contrivance (spuds, grousers), which reaches to the bottom of the river.
▪ III. grouser3|ˈgraʊsə(r)|
[f. grouse v.2 + -er1.]
One who grumbles or complains.
1885J. B. Patterson Life in Ranks 120 Impossible to do anything at all entirely to the satisfaction of a certain class of individuals... This..body of men is commonly designated by their..comrades as the ‘grousers’. |