Groundling

n.	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.

Noun

1.

groundling - in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

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