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- noun Alternative spelling of
diving suit .
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Examples
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The newest Neufeldt-Kuhnke rigid diving-suit, armour-plated in cast steel, could just about make it.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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Ten minutes later, when I'd peeled off the diving-suit, dried off, dressed in shore clothes and was just finishing my second glass of brandy, Captain Zaimis came down to the cabin.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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Did I stand there and spin a plausible story while the moisture dripping down under my pants from the diving-suit formed a pool of water under my feet and my vis-a-vis examined with interest the scrunched high-necked glistening rubber where my collar and tie ought to have been?
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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"It's much better than to have to put on a diving-suit and carry a cylinder of oxygen or compressed air about on our shoulders."
Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds Roy Rockwood
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His attendants divested him of his diving-suit, and rubbed his body with rough towels.
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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I've been down myself in a diving-suit, for that matter.
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916
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The emissaries next grabbed the diving-suit and left hurriedly by the way they had come.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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Corporation is trying to obtain possession of the self-liberating diving-suit which you control in our interest.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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Some hours later that evening a telephone message came for Locke from the boatman that the diving-suit had been recovered and was being held by him.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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But Locke's next words which she heard were his decision to test the diving-suit, and as she listened she became tense, for this information she knew was important.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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