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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Groundling

· Ground·ling · IPA /ɡrˈaʊndlɪŋ/
01 n. A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
  1. 1.
    A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.(Zool.)
  2. 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.