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Definition of Life preserver
1. Noun. Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.
Generic synonyms: Float, Rescue Equipment
Specialized synonyms: Life Belt, Life Buoy, Life Ring, Lifesaver, Cork Jacket, Life Jacket, Life Vest, Water Wings
Definition of Life preserver
1. Noun. A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Preserver
Literary usage of Life preserver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"New Repub 1:12-14 D 19 '14 Life-preservers Combination traveling-bag and
life-preserver, il Sci Am 113:276 S 25 '15 Life-saving sult-case, 11 Ind 83:396 S ..."
2. The Mechanics' Magazine (1858)
"... which are formed when molten iron is treated by passing atmospheric air through
it BUNKER, CJ An impronta life-preserver, or life-preserving ..."
3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1844)
"C. A NEW LIFE-PRESERVER. Our friend, Dr. LH Mosby, has invented a life-preserver
which strikes us as superior to anything of the sort ever yet proposed. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"THE life preserver. Did anybody ever hear of the life preserver insurance office ?
One FLIGHT is the beneficent projector thereof; and at the present hour ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"life preserver, n contrivance brought into general nso within the last 30 or 40
years as a means of preserving persons from drowning. ..."
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