"blow the grampus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1829, William Nugent Glascock, Sailors and Saints: Or Matrimonial Manœvres, page 179",
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          "ref": "1840, Edward Howard, Jack Ashore, page 127",
          "text": "\"[…] why then we must blow the grampus.\"\nHe then discharged the contents of the water-jug on her face and neck, and she opened her eyes, and would have screamed, had not the prompt Horatio clapped his hand over her mouth.",
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        "To throw water on a sleeping person, generally as a practical joke."
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        "(nautical, slang, obsolete) To throw water on a sleeping person, generally as a practical joke."
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  "word": "blow the grampus"
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