The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diving \Div"ing\, a. That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle (Zo["o]l.), 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.
WordNet
n. a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers [syn: diving suit]
Usage examples of "diving dress".
And there's the one-piece United States Navy diving dress of rubberized canvas.
By means of the diving dress he could easily reach the well in the interior of Granite House, and climbing by the projections of rock to its upper orifice he heard the colonists as they recounted the past, and studied the present and future.
Clad in his diving dress he was walking beneath the water at a few cables' lengths from the shore of the island, when the engineer had been thrown into the sea.
He was put down in a diving dress in about eight feet of water, where he bubbled and struggled about in great style.