sub-marine

A form of submarine — Being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea.

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Meanings

adjectivesub-marine (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareRare form of submarine.

    He switched the royal mummy for his winnings. The doubloons from Monte Carlo await us, sarcophagussed in all their sub-marine splendour!

    1994, Geoffrey McSkimming, “A Beast in the East”, in Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret (The Cairo Jim Chronicles; 3), Walker Books, published 2006, →ISBN, part 1 (Felonious Submergence), page 31
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    In the Sea, vpon the South-Weſt of Sicilie, much Corall is found. It is a Sub-Marine Plant. It hath no Leaues: It brancheth only when it is vnder Water; […]

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century. [Experiment Solitary, Touching the Growth of Corall.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 780, page 202

    [A]ll adversaries venturing into position for projecting sub-marine gun torpedoes, would I think be speedily diverted from their purpose, by reckless onslaughts of ram squadrons at all points.

    1872 January 14, Duncan Campbell, Steam Rams: Their Primary Elements and Proper Functions. Organisation of Our Reformed Fleet. […], Edinburgh: Colston & Son, […], →OCLC, page 54

    [O]ur breakwater of Boreas, the ice-pack, kept the sea remarkably quiet for such a storm, our greatest danger being from the “ice-tongues” or long, projecting, sub-marine ice-rams with which each loose cake of ice seemed armed, while we were beating to and fro between Button Islands and Resolution in the night.

    1881 March–April, Frederick Schwatka, “In the Land of the Midnight Sun”, in Good Company, volume VII, number XIX, XX, Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, part III (The Franklin Search of 1878–79–80), page 19, column 1
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