grampus

He continues: “Water dog, grampus, grumpus, mollyhugger, horny head, devil dog.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2018

It h a menacing or amorous puff, similar to the grampus.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Presently the Old Man, puffing like a grampus, hurried up to Mostyn.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

He dashed along beside the wall of the building—and after him lunged Regan, grunting like a grampus, a threat in every grunt.

From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Thresh′el, a flail; Thresh′er, the fox-shark; Thresh′er-whale, the grampus.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.

From Time Magazine Archive

Round and round the ring they went, both of them puffing and blowing like grampuses.

From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Soon afterwards we saw an enormous shoal of grampuses, large black fish, about 25 feet in length, something between a dolphin and a whale, with the very ugliest jaws, or rather snouts, imaginable.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey

To this group belong the sperm-whale, and the various forms of bottle-noses, black-fish, grampuses, narwhals, dolphins, porpoises, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

In the porpoises, grampuses, &c., they are united into a single crescentic opening.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher