noun one who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
2. darter ·noun a small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. the group includes numerous genera and species, all of them american. ·see etheostomoid.
3. 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.