diving : Idioms & Phrases

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Diving beetle

  • (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; called also water tiger.
Webster 1913

Diving bell

  • noun diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air
WordNet
  • a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
Webster 1913

Diving dress

  • noun a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers
    diving suit.
WordNet
  • . See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Webster 1913

Diving stone

  • a kind of jasper.
Webster 1913