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lifeboat

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life·boat  (lfbt)
n.
1. A boat carried on a ship for use if the ship has to be abandoned.
2. A boat used for rescue service.
lifeboat
Noun
a boat used for rescuing people at sea
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lifeboatlifeboat - a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
sea boat - a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas
Translations
lifeboat [ˈlaɪfbəut] n → lancha de socorro
lifeboat [ˈlaɪfbəut] life n → canot m or chaloupe f de sauvetage
lifeboat [ˈlaɪfbəut] life n → Rettungsboot nt
lifeboat [ˈlaɪfbəut] n → scialuppa di salvataggio


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I had gotten well over the area of the wreck when not a half-dozen yards ahead of me a lifeboat shot bow foremost out of the ocean almost its entire length to flop down upon its keel with a mighty splash.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It was built originally for a coastguard station and meant to hold a lifeboat, but they found they could never launch the lifeboat when they had it, so the man to whom all the foreshore and most of the land around here belongs - a Mr.
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Tarzan dove into the water, and swam around the wreck to the lifeboat.
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