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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snorkel
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
went snorkeling
▪ We went snorkeling in Hawaii.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hired mask and a snorkel is all that is needed to experience a busy underwater world.
▪ Cassius heard the fisherman blow the water from his snorkel.
▪ Coral reefs and tropical fish abound for those who like to snorkel.
▪ The jeep was fitted with a snorkel so that it could cross the streams and rivers encountered on the way.
▪ The V-weapons, jet-propelled aircraft, and snorkel submarines were bad enough.
▪ There are opportunities to hike, snorkel, whale watch, bird watch and photograph.
▪ We sat on the Göcek waterfront, sweating in a toppling mound of guitars and snorkels.
▪ When are you gon na snorkel with us, mon?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snorkel

1944, "airshaft for submarines," from German Schnorchel, from German navy slang Schnorchel "nose, snout," related to schnarchen "to snore" (see snore (n.)). So called from its resemblance to a nose and its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling first recorded 1949. The meaning "curved tube used by a swimmer to breathe under water" is first recorded 1951.

Wiktionary
snorkel

n. 1 A hollow tube, held in the mouth, used by swimmers for breathing underwater. 2 A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth. vb. To use a snorkel.

WordNet
snorkel
  1. n. breathing device consisting of a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface; allows swimmer to breathe while face down in the water

  2. air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time [syn: schnorkel, schnorchel, snorkel breather, breather]

  3. v. dive with a snorkel

Wikipedia
Snorkel (disambiguation)

A snorkel is a breathing tube used for swimming underwater, called Snorkelling.

The term snorkel may also refer to:

  • Submarine snorkel
  • Vehicle snorkel, for a motor vehicle
  • Hydraulic platform, a type of fire apparatus
  • Sergeant Snorkel, a character in Beetle Bailey comics
  • Snorkel Fire Equipment Company, a fire apparatus producing company, nowadays making lifting equipment
    • Snorkel International, the present surviving company

Usage examples of "snorkel".

Searchlight, Airborne, 118-19 Shipwrecked crew rescue, 20,41-3,76 Siegmann, Paul, 146 Silver Sandal, SS, 9j Snorkel, see Schnorchel Snowberry, HMS, corvette, 159 Spain, 105, in, 112,147-8 Speer, Albert, 3,204,205 Spinanger, SS, 191 Spreewald, SS, 44-7 Squid, depth charge, 188-9 Starling, HMS, sloop, 171,188-9,191 Steiger, Lt.

Watching the men around him, he learned how to dive hard with a rock in his hands and how to make snorkels by weaving together the bladders of giant pirarucu fish with slender river reeds.

She moves it over the edges of plyboard shelving stacked with snorkel equipment and T-shirts.

There, next to a leafy branch drifting with the current, he buoyed upward enough to break the surface with his dorsal eyestalks and snorkeled his nostrils.

If monsters on the island saw his eyestalks and snorkel, they would think the organs were leaves on the branch.

Back on the Constantly Baffled, Nate was in the water with snorkel and fins fighting the weight of half a dozen wrenches and sockets he'd put in the pockets of his cargo shorts.

And most of them were routine stuff about Internet viruses, an offer to sell an unused snorkel set, and a mighty eleven mails with soccer score updates sent to the rest of the office by one diligent observer working late during a European Champions League match.

But the second time was at the crescent beach while she was wading out into the jade ocean, snorkel and mask in one hand, black fins on her feet.

With only the life vests, they would have used snorkels and masks, but the cushions and life preservers gave them ample buoyancy and it was only a matter of settling down for the long pull.

You could snorkel for two hours, load the boat with Nassau grouper, and never lay eyes on another human being, much less a starched and undoubtedly dried-up emissary from the Governor's office.

And the local gendarmerie was not concerned at all about what went on along the road to the cul de sac near Mark's Place, the restaurant set off the main road on the way to a gentle little harbor from which tourists set out to Pine Island to snorkel in the Lucite-clear waters.

There were two SCUBA divers working separately from the snorkel crew now.

He puts on socks and hood, straps on swim fins, pulls a mask and snorkel down over his head, and then struggles into his neoprene gloves.

The travel agents, treading water near the bow, warbled excitedly through their snorkels.

On Bergoti Street in Argostoli she opened a souvenir emporium that sold reproduction amphorae, worry beads, dolls dressed in the fustanella of the evzones, cassettes of syrtaki music, snorkelling equipment, statuettes of Pan playing his pipes with every evidence of concentration yet endowed with a resplendent and hyperbolical erection, owls of Minerva shaped in limestone, postcards, handmade rugs that were really made by machines in North Africa, porcelain dolphins, gods, goddesses, and caryatids, terracotta tragedians' masks, silver trinkets, bedspreads embellished with meanders, keyrings that humorously mimicked in miniature the motions of copulation .