"water drinker" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21:",
          "text": "Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326:",
          "text": "Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.",
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        "Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler."
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      "glosses": [
        "A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
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          "water",
          "water"
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          "wine",
          "wine"
        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
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        "Christianity"
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
      "id": "en-water_drinker-en-noun-DfFIYF7d",
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          "spa",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
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        "historical"
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  "word": "water drinker"
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          "ref": "1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21:",
          "text": "Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326:",
          "text": "Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler."
      ],
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          "teetotaler",
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        "A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
      ],
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          "water",
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        "(Christianity, obsolete) A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist."
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        "Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
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        "(now historical) Someone who drinks the waters at a spa."
      ],
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