Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In irrigation, one who works the sluices of reservoirs and side-channels, in the tipper part of a valley, which flood or drown meadows below, so as to afford an equable distribution of water for irrigation. Locally called
drownder . - noun One who or that which drowns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, drowns.
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- noun Someone who is
drowning .
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Examples
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Was the flood then—the drowner, the toppler, the destroyer—to be his friend?
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Was the flood then—the drowner, the toppler, the destroyer—to be his friend?
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Was the flood then—the drowner, the toppler, the destroyer—to be his friend?
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Continent-drowner, if the thing hits water, which is more likely on our world.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: From out of deep space, a hole in Jupiter's hide 2009
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From a grateful member of the public, Well Done That Man, and I hope the drowner manages to sort himself out.
Father Can’t Yell « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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In most ways in the class I felt like I was holding my own as a relative to the rest of the class old lady, but I was the worst drowner of them all.
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“A f**cking frog-drowner out there,” Granddaddy Bill said.
A Few Minutes in Granddaddy's Old House on Black Bottom Bayou Steve Perry 2007
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Shall we follow each others a steplonger, drowner of daggers, whiles our liege, tilyet a stranger in the frontyard of his happi-ness, is taking, (heal helper! one gob, one gap, one gulp and gorger of all!) his refreshment?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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He looked like what Louis would call a “puppy drowner,” the kind of guy who wasn't happy unless he was hurting something smaller and weaker than himself.
The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002
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They provide the backbone of "Shiftwork", a stripped-down, primitive sorrow-drowner par excellence.
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