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Darter   /dˈɑrtər/   Listen
Darter

noun
1.
Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill.  Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird.
2.
A person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly.



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"Darter" Quotes from Famous Books



... telling fibs," said the old lady. "What I want to know is, if you know my darter, Mrs. John Jones; her first name is Seraphiny. She lives on Bleecker Street, and her husband, who is a nice man, though his head is bald on ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger

... Princesse, and trimmed with dandylion ruchin and sun-flower brade. Then she fleeced a he ram, and of the wool thereof she formed a big bussel, and Adam got mashed on her fine does, and she turned up her knoes at the washerwomans darter wot didnt have on nothin but a palm leef jursey, wot fit ...
— The Bad Boy At Home - And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 • Walter T. Gray

... "She ain't nobody's darter, ole gent, but he sez she's his gurl. She been keepin' comp'ny wid young Swiggsy, an' she wont promise not ter. Dat's de whole biznuss. De harder he walloped, de more she ...
— Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York • Lemuel Ely Quigg

... Altman's darter, Agnes (she ain't much more than a child), felt so sorry for The Panther, thinking, too, that I meant to shove him under, that she cut ...
— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis

... but it do be so, sure!" quoth he, staring. "My very own dinner cut by my very own darter, beef an' bread an' a mossel o' cheese—I take my bible oath t' it, I do—bread an' beef ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol


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