Definition: diver

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

diver
     n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: frogman, underwater
          diver]
     2: someone who dives (into water) [syn: plunger]
     3: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the
        northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back;
        related to the grebes [syn: loon]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Diver \Div"er\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, dives.

            Divers and fishers for pearls.        --Woodward.

   2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or
      business. ``A diver into causes.'' --Sir H. Wotton.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator
      (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or
      Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.

   Note: The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the
         black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea
         duck. See Loon, and Scoter.