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Gainer

noun

A person who gains weight. Synonym: weight gainer.

A person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits).

A dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board. Synonym: full gainer.

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"Gainer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Daisy's heart-burning had not let her go far. Mr. Lamb was exceedingly mystified, as it was very unusual for young ladies like this one to come buying whole hams and riding off with them. However, he made no objections to the exchange, being a gainer by ten cents; for Daisy had asked for a ham of ...

— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell

... reason to fear," replied Mother Chattox; "especially thee, Nicholas Assheton. Thy brother was no victim of mine. Thou wert the gainer by his death, not I. Why should I ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... the antiquary are certainly very happy people; they are absorbed in their subject, and consider it to be of immense importance. I suppose that their lives are, in a sense, well spent, and that the world is in a way the gainer by their labours. My friend the antiquary has certainly, according to his own account, proved that certain ancient earthworks near Dorchester are of a date at least five hundred years anterior to the received date. It took him ...

— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson

... "every man for himself," showed up well, especially when the enemy was in possession of the ball. Milton, the first-choice quarter-back, ran the team like a general, while Norton, the big full-back, proved the only consistent gainer through the line. In spite of the fact that she had met with defeat, Brimfield found encouragement in that contest, and, after the first few minutes of regrets, spent the rest of the ...

— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour

... boy! there is war in the camp. Theophilus leaves the house under the ban of his father's anger. They have had a desperate quarrel, and he quits London in disgrace; and if you are not a gainer by this change in the domestic arrangements, my name is ...

— The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I • Susanna Moodie

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