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drowner|ˈdraʊnə(r)|
[f. drown v. + -er1.]
1. One who drowns, or who suffers drowning; that which drowns.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 52 Ydlenesse, enemy of vertue, y⊇ drowner of youthe. 1560Whitehorne Arte Warre (1573) 102 b, Welles, the which be as drowners to the same caves. 1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 223. 1820 Shelley Liberty xix, As waves..Hiss round a drowner's head. 1827Moore Alciphr. iv, As drowners cling To the last hold.
2. A manager of water-meadows. ? local.
1805Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 166 The drowner, as he is generally called, or the man who has the superintendence of the water-meadows. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 531 When the manager of the mead,—provincially termed ‘the drowner’,—begins to clean out the main drain. |