diver

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DIVER, noun 1. One who dives; one who plunges head first into water; one who sinks by effort; as a diver in the pearl fishery. 2. One who goes deep into a subject, or enters deep into study. 3. A fowl, so called from diving. The name is given to several species of the genus Colymbus.
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