life raft

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noun

a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.

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life on the mississippi, life partner, life peer, life plant, life preserver, life raft, life science, life sentence, life signs, life skill, life space

Origin of life raft

First recorded in 1810–20

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Examples from the Web for life raft

The life-raft was a big affair that Rectus and I had often examined.
A Jolly Fellowship|Frank R. Stockton
He was aboard the Olivia when the ship struck on the bar, and resolved to take a desperate chance and come ashore on a life-raft.
Larry Dexter's Great Search|Howard R. Garis
Well, it wasn't much of a life-raft, as you may well suppose, but a man in such a fix as I was will take anything he can get.
Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895|Various
"A fisherman and I helped save him from a life-raft," and he told the circumstances.
Larry Dexter's Great Search|Howard R. Garis

Two cigar-shaped steel air-cylinders with a thin connecting deck was the life-raft.
Wide Courses|James Brendan Connolly

British Dictionary definitions for life raft

life raft

noun

a raft for emergency use at sea

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life raft

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life raft

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