Definitions for growlers

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growlers growl·er

Spelling: [grou-ler]

IPA: /ˈgraʊ lər/

Growlers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in growlers (eglorrsw).

Definitions for growlers

noun

1. a person or thing that growls.
2. Informal. a pitcher, pail, or other container brought by a customer for beer.
3. British Slang. a four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage.
4. Electricity. an electromagnetic device consisting of two field poles, used for indicating short-circuited coils in armatures and for magnetizing or demagnetizing objects.
5. an iceberg large enough to be a navigational hazard.

Origin of growlers

First recorded in 1745-55; growl + -er¹

Examples for growlers

We can give Mr. Bradshaw a lift as far as he goes, and then he can take the growler on.

growler at once bounded over the low wall and dived into the underwood.

Haven't you sleep enough, growler, that you're not to be knocked up for once?'

The growler had lost her bowsprit, and was otherwise damaged, and had been forced to strike also.

How would they feel, to be always chained to the bench, as growler is to his kennel?

He does not sell beer by the bucket or can or growler or schooner, but by the pint.

For, assuredly, if in anything there was to be found a fault, growler was the boy to find it.

I hailed a growler, and Wheeler told the driver where to go.

However, the most ignoble conveyance is undoubtedly the "growler."

After that he worked the growler on his own hook most of the time.