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Deep-water   /dip-wˈɔtər/   Listen
Deep-water

adjective
1.
Of or carried on in waters of great depth.





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"Deep-water" Quotes from Famous Books



... supper—a sandwich and a glass of beer; they would have preferred pop, but what deep-water man on shore drinks pop?—and made their way back to the ship by moonlight. The Red Un was terse in his speech on the car: mostly he ate peanuts abstractedly. If he evolved any clear idea out of the chaos of his mind it was to wish she had snapped him ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... before one, because there was hardly a southern-going voyage in the yesterday of the sea which meant anything less than a twelvemonth. Yes; it needed a few days after the taking of your departure for a ship's company to shake down into their places, and for the soothing deep-water ship routine to establish ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
... sailing master, and together they examined the chart. It showed a sand-bar stretching off the point, a deep-water channel, narrow but accessible, ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle
... a very distinct idea as to the purity of many of the postcards which provide Brightbourne with its mirth, the father made no reply, but turned his attention to the deep-water bathers as they dived and swam and climbed on the raft ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 8, 1917 • Various


Words linked to "Deep-water" :   deep


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