grooper
English
Noun
grooper (plural groopers)
- Archaic form of grouper. (the fish)
- 1850, The Western Literary Messenger
- The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each.
- 1850, The Western Literary Messenger
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grooper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)