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Darter   /dˈɑrtər/   Listen
Darter

noun
1.
Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.  Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird.
2.
A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly.



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"Darter" Quotes from Famous Books



... it, if we in the office neglected him, and smooth his back hair with their pocket combs, and he—never remembering the name of the particular ministering angel who fixed him up—called one and all of them "darter," smiled a grateful smile like an old dog that is petted, and then went his way. The girls in the White Front Drygoods Store gave him a cravat, and though it was made up, he brought it every morning in his pocket for them to pin on. ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White
... that the more yew need the more yew git? Before Jenny Bell went to live with her darter I didn't know what I should dew, for the taters was gittin' pooty low. Yew know she used ter eat twenty ter a meal an' then look hungry at the platter. An' then ef old Square Ely didn't come a-drivin' up one mornin' with ten bushel ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... "the villain would have come to us and made us give our grounds for our charges. What ridic'lous fools we would have been, when all we could answer was that we thought he looked as if he meant to run away with your darter." ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... her, strangers looked coldly upon her. As for the future, there was nothing to look forward to in this world or the next. As Dave Moony, the village cynic, said, "Mary Ann wa'n't proud or set up about nothin' but bein' the darter of a man that had c'mitted the onpar'nable sin." Poor woman! her eyes were blinded to all the beauty and brightness of this world, to the hope and love and joy of the next. What wonder that one day, as she paused in passing the little group gathered around ...
— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson


Words linked to "Darter" :   dart, pelecaniform seabird, water turkey, snakebird, animal, creature, fauna, Anhinga anhinga, brute, beast, snail darter, blue darter, genus Anhinga, animate being


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