(n): someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
(n): a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping
(n): a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
"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,
Slang for a bottom burp where I come from.
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. :-)
Bon Voyage, c_b.
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
Also a vessel for fetching beer, a small iceberg, and a clarence.
Never heard it. Obviously I don't get (give?) enough.
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! ;)