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 bells
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pluralof diving bell.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In combination, these various silks can be used to create a seemingly infinite variety of forms: spider diving bells, spider sunshades, and even spider camouflage.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 12, 2017
"The Deep Frontier" deals with all the new submarines, diving bells and other devices that scientists are developing to explore and utilize the ocean depths.
From Time Magazine Archive
When NBC's Board Chairman Pat Weaver thought up the idea of Wide, Wide World, he planned to put TV cameras in diving bells, on skis and surfboards, atop mountains and deep in caverns.
From Time Magazine Archive
When men work in certain types of caissons, in diving suits or diving bells, they are subject to great air pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
The diving bells of those times were dangerous and clumsy, and easily capsized.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
