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swimmer

/ˈswɪm.ɚ/ noun B1
  1. One who swims.
  2. A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
  3. A webfooted aquatic bird.
  4. A sperm. (colloquial)

Plural swimmers

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“My son,” said the abbé, “you, who are a sailor and a swimmer, must know as well as I do that a man so loaded would sink before he had done fifty strokes.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 181 · C1
This was an easy feat to him, for he usually attracted a crowd of spectators in the bay before the lighthouse at Marseilles when he swam there, and was unanimously declared to be the best swimmer in the port.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 221 · C1
However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 227 · C1

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