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/laɪf prizˈərvər/ Listen

Life preserver

noun

Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning. Synonyms: flotation device, preserver.

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"Life preserver" Quotes from Famous Books

... groaned, and fell over on the floor dead. We had to throw water in his face to bring him around, and when we got him up he started for the guards, saying: "I go drown myself; I don't want to live." Some one ran and got him a life preserver, and told him to put it on before he jumped overboard. He finally quieted down and went to his room. I took the horseman into my room, gave him $200 in money and my "partner's" diamonds. He was the lion of ...

— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

... New Jersey where the infamous race track, and the more infamous rum-traffic legalized by law, would sink the whole State in the Atlantic Ocean, if it were not that it had a life preserver in Ocean Grove, I was hardly prepared to vouch for it being that kind of ...

— The Children's Portion • Various

Words linked to "Life preserver" : cork jacket, life belt, water wings, life jacket, float, rescue equipment, lifesaver, flotation device, preserver, life vest, life buoy, life ring