1855 Shaffner's Telegr. Compan. Oct. 385 It was truly interesting to see the snake-like coils rapidly unfold themselves, and glide off as if alive, and endowed with instinct to free itself of kinks, the bane of submarining.

1877 T. Constable Mem. Lewis D. B. Gordon 111 The most extraordinary and ludicrously appalling accident in the annals of submarining occurred. In testing for the fault, we had cut the cable at about 3 miles from the top or end on shore.

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Feb. 170/1 ‘Ought to prove a tidy job for us, though,’ he muttered with some anxiety, ‘s'long as she don't take to submarinin' first.’

1925 Joplin (Missouri) News Herald 21 Dec. 6/1 The money lost in this manner by Germany was a small part indeed of the total loss on account of the submarining of our giant passenger liner.

1942 Boys' Life Sept. 6/3 He was letting the Proctor guard opposing him get away with too much effective submarining.

1972 Sunday Tel. 30 Apr. 34/2 Sliding forward out of their protective belts in a movement which safety experts call ‘submarining’.

1991 Inside Sports Aug. 14/1 Other pitchers have turned to submarining as a last-ditch consequence of injury.

2001 Navy News Sept. 28/3 It was the first time I really got an idea of what Cold War submarining was all about.

1918 G. Frankau One of Them xxii. 170 That Hand before whose Thumb the Cave-men bow, Whose oiled Palm guides the submarining mermans.

1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Feb. 14/5 Third is the submarining Stanford frosh Don Towne.

1946 Athletic Jrnl. Oct. 28/2 This method has proved to be a very effective one to use against a submarining guard.

1991 R. Bak Cobb Would Have Caught it ii. 53 Elon ‘Chief’ Hogsett, the Tigers' other submarining pitcher.

2008 B. Prentiss It's only Game lxxviii. 331 Cal had successfully sprawled into the killer's lower legs and like a submarining defensive lineman he had squirmed forward.