'Water tiger' definitions:
Definition of 'Water tiger'
From: GCIDE
- Water tiger \Wa"ter ti"ger\ (Zool.) A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'water tiger'
From: GCIDE
- Diving \Div"ing\, a. That dives or is used or diving. [1913 Webster]
- Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscid[ae], which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger.
- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
- Diving stone, a kind of jasper. [1913 Webster]