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diving bell
noun
- a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
diving bell
noun
- an early diving submersible having an open bottom and being supplied with compressed air
Word History and Origins
Origin of diving bell1
Example Sentences
It might act a bit like the diving bell that protects human divers.
That last film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won Schnabel the best-director prize at Cannes.
J ulian Schnabel, director of Miral , was nominated for an Academy Award for his film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
I have not risen in the air in a balloon, nor sunk below the level of the sea in a diving-bell.
For hundreds of years men have used a contrivance called a diving-bell for working under water.
A lady named Morris, of Plymouth, is recorded to have been the first of her sex to venture under water in a diving bell.
It was like an open-bottomed diving bell welded to the hull.
One would think the diving-bell in its now very practicable state might be employed with great advantage for both purposes.
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