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/dˈɑrtər/ Listen

noun

Darter n.

One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

(Zool.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

(Zool.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... comin'! why don't ye ask him? He'll go and introduce you to Don Fernandy's darter, too, ef ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... know, sir, as my name's Meg Gudgeon, leaseways that was my name till my darter chrissened me Mrs. Knocker, and I lives in Primrose Court, Great Queen Street, and my reg'lar perfession is a-sellin' coffee "so airly in the mornin'," and I've got a darter as ain't quite so 'ansom as me, bein' the moral of her father as is over the water a-livin' in the fine 'Straley. ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... Uncle 'Siah's second gal, and just as pooty as a picter. She looked suthin' like Dolcy, Dora's little adopted darter, you know: but she wor alluz a-larfin', and gitting off her jokes; and had a sort of a wicked look by spells, enough to make a feller's flesh creep ...

— Outpost • J.G. Austin

... interrupted the blacksmith, sternly, half rising from his seat with every trace of his former weakness vanished from his hardset face; "do you mean to say that they put on airs to ye—to MY darter?" ...

— A Phyllis of the Sierras • Bret Harte

... time there were a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they come out of the oven, they was that overbaked the crust were too hard to eat. So she says to her darter: ...

— Folk Tales Every Child Should Know • Various

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