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Life-preserver

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Life´-pre`serv`er    (līf´prė`zẽrv`ẽr)
n.1.An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water.
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Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver --an inflated bag of wind --which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
A villain came in through the window and struck me with a life-preserver.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
I gasped with the anguish and shock of it, filling my lungs before the life-preserver popped me to the surface.
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