Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A drinker of water.
  • noun An advocate of abstinence from intoxicating liquors; a prohibitionist.

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Examples

  • He was a water-drinker, a vegetarian, and all those logical disciplinary things.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Johnson then called for a bottle of port, of which Goldsmith and I partook, while our friend, now a water-drinker, sat by us.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • I was at this time myself a water-drinker, upon trial, by

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour — Something! — something. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour — Something! — something. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • To the water-drinker, therefore, a pocket-filter is indispensable.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • "Well, well," said Dr. Burge, taking the hint with the utmost good-humor, "perhaps they were not altogether wrong there; and so I will trouble Miss Prowley for a bit more of the steak, and ---- No, thank you, no beer for me; I am a water-drinker of twenty years 'standing."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • He was resolved to become a water-drinker, to pay no more visits to the man at the cottage, and to keep no intoxicating drinks in his house.

    Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

  • The water-drinker filled the whole room with water, and they went into another.

    Armenian Literature Anonymous

  • That all this should have been highly agreeable to the good Richardson, a 'vegetarian and water-drinker, a worthy, domesticated, fussy, and highly nervous little man,' ensconced in

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

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