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life preserver

US and Canadian a life belt or life jacket
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

life preserver

[′līf pri‚zər·vər]
(engineering)
A buoyant device that is used to prevent drowning by supporting a person in the water.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
The airline vest-style life preserver is what you've seen demonstrated on airliners forever.
What if you were sailing miles from land and did not remember to bring a life preserver with you?
Pink wave print and pink life preserver print-cut from each:
There were several lessons to be learned by this life-changing experience, but the paramount discovery is that life preservers save lives!
Every day he oversaw the packing of 40-to-50 life preservers and life rafts, and he was CDQAR for many of them.
When Isenstein is inside the work, as she was, with short breaks, on most days of the exhibition's run, one fishnet-clad leg dangles over the sculpture's pedestal, and one arm protrudes, holding a life preserver printed with the words WISHIN' I WAS FISHIN'; in her absence, another preserver (GONE FISHING) is set atop the object.
Although Coddington was wearing a safety helmet and life preserver, and resuscitation attempts were made, paramedics declared him dead at the scene.
With this comprehensive text, Whitla (English and Humanities, York University) throws a life preserver to literature students (especially beginners).
Fortunately for his clients, Mahaffy adhered to high-grade bonds, which were just the sort of life preserver sought out by frantic investors.
"He's throwing out a life preserver and I'm going to grab it," the bishop said.
They threw a life preserver and ropes to her, but she could not save herself.
Auctioneers are expecting a "huge amount" of interest for what they say is the "most important life preserver in any private or public collection".
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