The Collaborative International Dictionary
Little swimmer
Swimmer \Swim"mer\, n.
One who swims.
(Far.) A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
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(Zo["o]l.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores.
Little swimmer (Zo["o]l.), a phalarope.
Wiktionary
little swimmer
n. A phalarope.
Usage examples of "little swimmer".
Two days later, the Boston Globe ran a front-page story called ``The Little Swimmer That Could.
She had been a smooth little swimmer and swimming was a practice that never went away once it was acquired.
The little swimmer looked at Steed with unsteady eyes, recognized him as in command, and collapsed in the bottom of the bateau, where he lay motionless through the long night.
I had come to be fond of the sturdy little swimmer, and I think she of me.
Gladys was small, but very quick and deft on the playing-field or tennis court, and a fine little swimmer.