davy

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/ˈdeɪvi/

noun 3name 2

Collocations

ADJ.

alone, developed, full, innovative, old, safer

VERB + DAVY

air, goes, gone, knew, posted, pull, said, take

DAVY + NOUN

-, caterpillar, gentlemen, jones', jones's, keith, lamp, locker

PREP.

off, than, with

ADV.

sometimes

Definitions

name

A diminutive of the male given name David.

Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate Upon Saint Davy's day.

A surname originating as a patronymic derived from David.

noun

A Davy lamp.

[…] the experience of more than one of the best-regulated collieries of the north of England, where a vast number of Davies are in daily use.

noun

An affidavit, a legally binding statement or oath

Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off.

"You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy."

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Davy Jones's locker

The bottom of the sea, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.

"Damn my eyes," says he, "they are gone to Davy Jones's locker." NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.

Example Bank

Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate Upon Saint Davy's day.

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[…] the experience of more than one of the best-regulated collieries of the north of England, where a vast number of Davies are in daily use.

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Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off.

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"You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy."

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The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight.

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He also developed the innovative davy lamp for use in coal mines.

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