lifeboat
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
lifeboat (plural lifeboats)
- (nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship)
- (scifi) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship
- French: radeau de survie
- German: Rettungsboot
- Italian: scialuppa di salvataggio, scialuppa
- Portuguese: barco salva-vidas
- Russian: спаса́тельная ло́дка
- Spanish: bote salvavidas
lifeboat (lifeboats, present participle lifeboating; past and past participle lifeboated)
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