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/dˈeɪvi dʒˈoʊnzɪz lˈɑkər/ Listen

Davy Jones's locker

noun

The bottom of a sea or ocean. Synonyms: Davy Jones, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed.

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"Davy Jones's locker" Quotes from Famous Books

... cabbing boy insted. Capting several times calld to a man who was steering—"Port, port;" but though he always anserd, "Eye, eye, sir," he didn't bring him a drop. The black cook fell into the hold on the topp of his hed. Everybody sed he was gone to Davy Jones's locker; but he warn't, for he soon came to again, drank 1/2 a pint of rumm, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... fizzled out like a damp squib. Absolutely afraid to risk the remaining boats in operations that would certainly end in their being unceremoniously conveyed to Davy Jones's locker, the German Admiralty had dispatched them to the Mediterranean, where, under the Austrian flag, they attempted, at first with a certain degree of success, to ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

Words linked to "Davy Jones's locker" : neritic zone, bathyal district, continental slope, bed, continental shelf, bottom, bathyal zone, twilight zone, abyssal zone