To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little boy put in at a window. Cant.
·noun A place of low resort. II. Dive ·vt To explore by diving; to plunge into. III. Dive ·add. ·p...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To descend or plunge voluntarily head-foremost under the water. To go off deck in the watch. A ship ...
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