urinator

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It's a delightful deterrent/punishment for the urinator - but I fear that it is the shop-keep who'll be in the courts.

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  1. A diver; one who plunges and sinks in water, as in search of pearls. [Rare.] Those relations of urinators belong only to those places where they have dived, which are only rocky. Ray.
  2. [capitalized] [NL. (Cuvier,1800;Lacépède,1801).] A genus of diving birds, giving name to the Urinatoridæ: variously applied.
  3. Qnite recently the name was revived, and definitely restricted to the loons, whose usual generic name, Colymbus, was thereupon transferred to certain grebes. See Colymbus, and cuts under loon and tibia.

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  • It's a delightful deterrent/punishment for the urinator - but I fear that it is the shop-keep who'll be in the courts. —  Politics.ie
  • Thomas and the urinator sat just feet apart from each other for long hours. —  The Clog
  • Or the public urinator. —  Cracked: All Posts
 

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  1. from Latin urinator, a diver, from urinari, dive, plunge under water: see urine, v.
 

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