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▪ I. diving, vbl. n.|ˈdaɪvɪŋ|
[f. dive v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb dive, in its various senses.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxvi. (1495) 429 By manere of plungynge and of dyuynge. 1614Rowlands Fooles Bolt 37 A common Scould, her furious heate must coole: Wash'd by her diuing in a Cucking stoole. 1743–5R. Pococke Trav. (Camden) II. 129 The curious manner of diveing which they lately began, in order to raise what they could of the wreck. 1854(title) Divings into Scripture and Sprinkling of Wisdom for Little Folk.
b. attrib. and Comb., as diving-bladder, diving-boat, diving-engine, diving-helmet, diving-machine, diving-suit, diving-bell, etc.; diving-board, a board projecting some distance over the water, from which a swimmer dives; diving-plane, a horizontal rudder on a submarine for steering the vessel up or down; also a similar device fitted to instruments used in oceanography.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 143 The diuing poole of Bethesda. 1661Diving-engine [see diving-bell]. 1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2842/3 Letters Patents..for a Diving-Engine. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 199 ⁋3 The first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Diving Bladder, a term used by Borelli for a machine..contrived for Diving under the water to great depths..The objections all other diving machines are liable to are obviated. 1802Naval Chron. VII. 270 The Diving-boat..will be capacious enough to contain eight men. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Deving-pond, a pond from which water is drawn for domestic use, by dipping a pail. 1839P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 163 Inflating air into the diving machine, or rather diving dress, of the man who was working under the sea. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts s.v. Diving-dress, The diving helmet is, in principle, similar to the bell. 1893Sinclair & Henry Swimming iv. 108 A spring diving-board is generally used for running headers. 1908J. London Let. 26 Oct. (1966) 264, I supply it with..diving-suits and boats. 1915Kipling Fringes of Fleet 29 A mine and chain had jammed under her [sc. the submarine's] forward diving-plane. c1938L. Mumford City Development (1946) 112 The curve of a diver's body as he leaps from the diving-board. 1943C. S. Lewis Perelandra ii. 27 If they have a scientific civilisation they may have diving-suits. 1959H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. i. 31 (caption) Small high-speed Plankton Indicator... All models except the last have their own diving planes. 1959Jane's Fighting Ships 1959–60 414 She incorporates several novel features including hydro-wings or diving planes fitted to the conning tower ‘fin’.
▪ II. ˈdiving, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dives, in various senses of the vb.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. Ded. 1 The industrious search of some diuing braine. a1639Wotton in Reliq. Wotton. 402 (R.) Let the diving Negro seek For gemms hid in some forlorn creek. 1712Gay Trivia iii. 80 Guard well thy pocket, for these syrens stand To aid the labours of the diving hand.
b. In names of various animals.
diving-buck or goat, a S. African antelope (Cephalophus mergens), the duyker-bok of the Boers; diving-duck, the golden-eye duck (Clangula glaucion); diving-pigeon, the black guillemot or doveky (Uria Grylle); diving-spider, Argyroneta aquatica, which lives in a nest filled with air under water.
1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 84 The first Diving Pigeon I got..at Spitzbergen. 1786Sparrman Voy. Cape G.H. II. 243 The duyker-bok, or diving goat..rising in its leap with its neck erect, and in its descent bringing it down between its legs..had the appearance of diving and gave rise to its name. 1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 89, I got a diving duck, and should have had more shots. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 161 Diving duck (Shetland Isles). Ibid. 218 Diving pigeon. |