helldiver

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English

Noun

helldiver (plural helldivers)

  1. Alternative form of hell-diver
    • 2008, Howard Norman, Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples, →ISBN:
      Every winter the birds went south. One time a helldiver volunteered to stay for the winter to take care of two birds, an injured whooping crane and a wounded mallard duck, both of whom had broken wings.
    • 2009, Jack Todd, Sun Going Down: A Novel, →ISBN, page 90:
      At dawn on the first day of April 1870, Cora Paint stood near one of her spindly and failing apple trees a hundred feet from the river, watching the rednecked helldivers above the falls soar and plummet into the Big Sioux after carp or perch.
    • 2011, Pam Vaughan, Brendan Vaughan, Bishop, →ISBN:
      Most cultures have a flood myth, and the Paiutes are not exception. Instead of a dove, however, it is the little helldiver that finds land; and the land above the waters is not Mt. Ararat but Mt. Tom.