sub-marine

sub-marine (not comparable)

1. Rare form of submarine.
   • 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:

     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; […]

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

     [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.

   • 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:

     [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.

   • 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:

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