Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The bottom of the sea, as personified in songs and stories.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the spirit of the sea; a sea-devil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.
- the ocean, or bottom of the ocean.
- dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The spirit of the sea.
- proper noun The
sea bed , bottom of theocean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Another little fellow by the name Davy Jones had already made his mark in a combo called the Monkees and Bowie thought better than to spend the rest of his career explaining the distinction.
London Free Press 2010
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Another little fellow by the name Davy Jones had already made his mark in a combo called the Monkees and Bowie thought better than to spend the rest of his career explaining the distinction.
London Free Press 2010
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David Bowie then still called Davy Jones joined in '64 after splitting from his freshman band The King Bees.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 185 Phil Ramone 2011
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Well, some years back he made a little deal with a guy called Davy Jones, and not the one from the Monkees.
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The Davy Jones is a direct offset to our first well and is on the same big structure that you've seen the different cross-sections on, so we've already proved that the structure at Davy Jones is a trapping structure.
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So we have some really petroliferous units that we have as targets around this whole strike part of this what I'll call the Davy Jones trend.
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Slide 4 points to Davy Jones, which is a major discovery.
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That said, combinations of humans and CGI can look really good, such as Davy Jones at about 1:32.
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Jonah and St. John were seafaring characters, and the Roman Catholic holy clerk St. Nicholas was baptized "Davy Jones," with sundry other reasons good at sea.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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If you do -- capsize, an 'Davy Jones's locker is the word.
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