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Diving dress   /dˈaɪvɪŋ drɛs/   Listen
adjective
Diving  adj.  That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidae, which habitually lives under water; called also water tiger.
Diving bell, 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.
Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Diving stone, a kind of jasper.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Diving dress" Quotes from Famous Books



... wreck explored, and that it was necessary for a man to be down for a long period to do this successfully. The Kanakas still balked, however, and when Jerry grew furious and ordered one of them flatly to get into the diving dress, ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney

... of the reservoir now. To work effectively he must stand directly on the bottom, and he must be held down in some way. When a diver makes a descent he is pulled down by shoes which are heavily weighted with lead. Otherwise the buoyancy of the diving dress, filled as it is with air, would send him to the surface. And in Joe's case his human body, with his lungs inflated with air, would have come up after his dive had he not held himself down. But he must ...
— Joe Strong, the Boy Fish - or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank • Vance Barnum



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