diver
/ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/ noun B1- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- A New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)
- A long-finned sand diver (Limnichthys polyactis)
- A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Plural divers
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Faria had dug his way through fifty feet, Dantès would dig a hundred; Faria, at the age of fifty, had devoted three years to the task; he, who was but half as old, would sacrifice six; Faria, a priest and savant, had not shrunk from the idea of risking his life by trying to swim a distance of three miles to one of the islands—Daume, Rattonneau, or Lemaire; should a hardy sailor, an experienced diver, like himself, shrink from a similar task; should he, who had so often for mere amusement’s sake plunged to the bottom of the sea to fetch up the bright coral branch, hesitate to entertain the same project?
Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves.
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