life preserver
Noun
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Noun
life preserver (plural life preservers)
- A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat.
- (dated) A short club with a weighted end.
- 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan, "With Cat-Like Tread", The Pirates of Penzance
- Here's your crowbar and your centrebit / Your life-preserver — you may want to hit!
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet":
- He tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike.
- 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan, "With Cat-Like Tread", The Pirates of Penzance
- life-buoy (UK)
- French: (vest) gilet de sauvetage, (ring) bouée de sauvetage
- German: (vest) Rettungsweste, (ring) Rettungsring, (ring) Rettungsreifen
- Italian: salvagente
- Portuguese: boia salva-vidas
- Russian: (vest) спаса́тельный жиле́т
- Spanish: salvavidas
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