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Diver
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.
2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.
3. Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.