Drowner

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who or that which drowns.
  • noun. In irrigation, one who works the sluices of reservoirs and side-channels, in the tipper part of a valley, which flood or drown meadows below, so as to afford an equable distribution of water for irrigation. Locally called drownder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, drowns.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Someone who is drowning.
  • Word Usage
    "Was the flood then—the drowner, the toppler, the destroyer—to be his friend?"