Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dives for sponges; a sponge-fisher.
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Examples
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The world's champion sponge-diver is still the world's champion.
Giles Slade: Winter Olympics: Gold Rush or Even Ground? 2009
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Them devil-fish are as ferocious as tigers and many's the poor sponge-diver they have gobbled up. "
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest John Henry Goldfrap 1898
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