Div·ing a. That dives or is used or diving.
 Diving beetle Zool., 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.

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