DIVER

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

2.
n.

Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.

3.
n.

Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.


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