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Definition of Life vest

1. Noun. Life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design.

Definition of Life vest

1. Noun. Life jacket. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Vest

Literary usage of Life vest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. For the Freedom of the Seas by Ralph Henry Barbour (1918)
"He fought for the surface, his garments impeding him but the life-vest aiding, and presently felt the air in his nostrils again. His lungs were choked with ..."

2. Selected Cases on Real Property: Selected and Arranged for Use in Connection by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1897)
"Gifts to a class following a bequest of the same property for life vest immediately upon the death of the testator. Nor does it make any difference that the ..."

3. Tennessee Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme by William Frierson Cooper (1879)
"If the tenant for life vest the fund in the purchase of slaves or other property, the title vests absolutely in him. The remainderman has no right to, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Tennessee Supreme Court, John Waller Head (1860)
"If the tenant for life vest the fund in the purchase of slaves or other property, the title vests absolutely in bin.. The remainderman has no right to, ..."

5. A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1855)
"They long with danger sail through life's vest sns, In bodies as in vessels full of leaks ; Walking in veins, their narrow galleries, Shorter than walks of ..."

6. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1837)
"Under the Statute of Uses did not the copyhold estate, on the death of the tenant for life, vest in the son and daughter of . /. />'. ? and cannot they now ..."

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