DEEP-WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep-water mean? 

• DEEP-WATER (adjective)
  The adjective DEEP-WATER has 1 sense:

1. of or carried on in waters of great depth

  Familiarity information: DEEP-WATER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP-WATER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or carried on in waters of great depth

Context example:

a deep-water port

Similar:

deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

The men had been paid off in Australia, and Martin had immediately shipped on a deep-water vessel for San Francisco.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Much of it falls to the ocean floor and helps make up deep-water sediment, or so the thinking has been.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

Half the men forward are deep-water sailors, and their excuse is that they did not know anything about her or her captain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In Lake Tahoe, impaired water clarity has precipitated declines in populations of deep-water invertebrates and other species.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

It was Henderson’s boat and with him had been lost Holyoak and Williams, another of the deep-water crowd.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The food he ate must have been worse than what a sailor gets on the worst-feedin' deep-water ships, than which there ain't much that can be possibly worse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then some deep-water sailor, from the waist of the ship, lifted a rich tenor voice in the “Song of the Trade Wind”:

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Me, sir,” answered Holyoak, one of the deep-water sailors, a slight tremor in his voice.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)