Diving

Diving
Diving Div"ing, a. That dives or is used or diving. [1913 Webster]

{Diving beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any beetle of the family {Dytiscid[ae]}, 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. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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