Dictionary entry

Diving

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Div″ing (?), a. That dives or is used or diving.

Diving beetle(Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, 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.