·noun One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
II. Darter ·noun A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. ·see Etheostomoid.
III. Darter ·noun The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus;
— so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. ·see Snakebird.