swimmers

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  1. One who swims. A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. Byron, Don Juan, ii. 53.
  2. An animal which is well adapted for swimming, or which swims habitually. Specifically— In ornithology, a swimming bird; a natatorial web-footed or fin-footed bird; any member of the old order Natatores; a water-fowl. In entomology: (1) A swimming beetle; an aquatic carnivorous pentamerous coleopter; a member of the group Hydradephaga or Hydrocanthari. (2) A swimming-spider; a water-spider; a member of the araneidan group Natantes, which spins a web under water. See cut under Argyroneta.
  3. A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
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  • (This dredging operation proved to be hazardous: three dredges were damaged or destroyed by VC sapper-swimmers, and still another was sunk when it sucked up and detonated some live ordnance from the river bottom.) —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • Videos of him and other swimmers are available at Swimroom. com. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • But the swimmers were not to be outdone and after Jon Fox took silver and Louise Watkin and Sean Fraser won bronze, Frederiksen won the women's S8 100 metres backstroke. —  icScotland
  • "We just hate it for the swimmers, but fortunately we didn't lose any kids from swimming," —  News & Record Article Feed
  • We gathered up the swimmers, and we ate lunch downstream, every now and then coughing up the water we aspirated while trying to breathe as we were stuck under the raft. —  Meltwater. Torrents. Meanderings. Delta.
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