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darter (medicine) and retch(1) (iou)


darter (medicine)


darter


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

2. <zoology> The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

3. <zoology> A small fresh water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.

Source: Websters Dictionary


retch(1) (iou)



retch verb1 & noun1. obsolete exc. dial. LME.
[Var. of REACH verb1.]
A. verb.
verb intrans. Stretch; extend; reach. LME.
verb trans. Stretch or draw (a thing) out; esp. stretch (leather) in tanning. L15.
b. noun.
Reach, grasp (lit. & fig.). LME-E17.
A (long) stretch of a river. M17.