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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Darter

/där'-tẽr/ · Dart·er · IPA /dˈɑrtər/
01 n. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
  1. 1.
    One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
  2. 2.
    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.) See: Snakebird
  3. 3.
    A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.(Zool.) See: Etheostomoid