diving bell

2 definitions found

diving bell - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Diving \Div"ing\, a.
     That dives or is used or diving.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Diving beetle (Zool.), 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]

diving bell - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  diving bell
      n 1: diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom
           and is supplied with compressed air