Cryptic crossword clue
Sailor joining cutter employed for dive 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word JACKKNIFE

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The straight part
We know that "dive" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dive = jackknife.
The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.
This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does JACKKNIFE mean?

JACKKNIFE noun
  1. A compact folding knife.
  2. The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
  3. A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
JACKKNIFE verb
  1. To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
  2. To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.
JACKKNIFE noun
  1. A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.

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