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spelunker

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eeklnprsuStarts with SEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a person who explores caves

Word origin

From then-obsolete spelunk (noun) + -er. Coined by New England cave explorer Roger Charles Johnson in the 1930s.

Used in a sentence

  • I took to fishing, on mountain brooks and lakes, and finally I was inveigled into becoming a spelunker. A spelunker is a human worm who crawls into caves ("splunca" is Latin for cave) and explores them.
  • But the scariest of all’s the witless caver; Spelunker is the name that he goes by. He caves alone with just one light, A worn-out rope, and boots too tight, Looking for a cave in which to die.
  • it is a truth that every caver was once a spelunker with a flashlight and a tangled ball of string.

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