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Webster 1913 Edition
Groundling
Ground′ling
,Noun.
[
Ground
+ -ling
.] 1.
(Zool.)
A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
2.
A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches.
No comic buffoon to make the
groundlings
laugh. Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Groundling
GROUND'LING
,Noun.