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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.






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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



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