Obs. [a. L. ūrīnātor, agent-noun f. ūrīnārī to dive] One who dives under water; = DIVER 1.
In frequent use from c. 1655 to c. 1685.
1648. Wilkins, Math. Magic, II. v. 183. It is observed, that a barrell or cap … will not serve a Urinator or Diver for respiration.
1682. Beale, Lett., in Boyle’s Wks. (1772), VI. 446. His majesty’s urinator, Mr. Curtis, published in the Gazette, how he had practised. Ibid. Which minds me how easy it were … for our merchants, in all their voyages, to be furnished with such urinators.
1691. Ray, Creation, I. (1692), 73. All those Relations of Urinators belong only to those places where they have dived.
