Dictionary - Definition of Davy Jones's locker


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. The bottom of a sea or ocean.[Wordnet].
Expression	1. An alternative spelling for "Davy Jones ": The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.[Websters].
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Common Expressions: Davy Jones's locker

Expressions	Definition
Davy Jones's Locker	1: See Davy Jones . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
	2: The bottom of a sea or ocean. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Gone to Davy Jones's Locker	Dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
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Expressions	Domain	Definition
Davy Jones's Locker	Literature	1: "This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes... warning the devoted wretch of death and woe." - Smollett: Peregrine Pickle, xiii. 2: He's gone to Davy Jones's locker, i.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. Locker, in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and duffy is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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