Davy
Short form, David
Davy is a diminutive of David, used as a given name or nickname.
In nautical slang, Davy Jones is the spirit of the sea, and Davy Jones's locker is the ocean floor as a grave for drowned sailors: The ship went down to Davy Jones's locker.
A Davy lamp is a miner's safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy.
Settler of wild borders
- AlamoTexas Revolution battleground
- coonskinFrontier cap material
- TennesseeSixteenth state admitted
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
wilderness · trapper · backwoodsman · folk hero · tall tales · sharpshooter · bear hunter · congressman
Secured storage compartment
- nauticalOf ships and sailing
- sailorSeafaring crew member
- seafarerOne who navigates oceans
- drownedDied by submersion
ocean depths · mariner · superstition · pirate · shipwreck · ghost ship · deep sea · watery grave
Extracting earth's resources
- safety lampEnclosed flame for mines
- methaneSimplest alkane fuel
- coal mineUnderground fuel extraction site
- flameBurning gas made visible
invention · miner · underground · gauze · colliery · illumination · ventilation · pit
frontiersman
Settler of wild borders
pioneer · wilderness · trapper · backwoodsman · folk hero · tall tales · sharpshooter · bear hunter · congressman · frontier
locker
Secured storage compartment
drowned · ocean depths · mariner · superstition · pirate · shipwreck · ghost ship · deep sea · watery grave · folklore
mining
Extracting earth's resources
- safety lampEnclosed flame for mines
- methaneSimplest alkane fuel
- coal mineUnderground fuel extraction site
flame · invention · miner · underground · gauze · colliery · illumination · ventilation · pit · industrial revolution
Dave
Informal masculine name
diminutive · informal · familiar · British · affectionate · childhood · pet name
- Enlightenment ScienceLavoisier, Linnaeus, Euler, Laplace, Franklin
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
- Scientific SocietiesRoyal Academy, fellow, fellowship, president, charter
- Miles Davis
- David BowieStarman glam rocker
- Star of DavidJewish religious emblem
- Davy Jones' lockerOcean floor for shipwrecks
- King DavidAncient Israel's greatest monarch
- Camp DavidPresidential country residence