Life Preserver

Definition: Life Preserver

Life Preserver

Noun

1. Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.

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Literature

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Synonyms: Life Preserver

Arms

Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.

Crosswords: Life Preserver

Hey Biff, get a load of this guy's life preserver. Dork thinks he's gonna drown! (Back to the Future; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale)

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Books

• 38 Adults, 45 Children, A Life Preserver and A Fire Axe (reference)

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Life preserver. : use condoms. there's living proof they stop AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

In flying gear, standing by his Curtiss pusher biplane, circa 1911. Note the rubber inner tubes worn as a life preserver in case of a forced water landing. Credit: NAVY.

Stands by his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had alighted on a warship. Pennsylvania was then at anchor in San Francisco Bay, California. Note the light emergency floats under the plane's lower wings and Ely's flying attire, including rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. The hooks on the bottom of the plane's undercarriage were used to catch lines placed across the ship's landing platform in order to bring the aircraft to a stop. Credit: NAVY.

Seated in his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had landed on a warship. Note Ely's flying attire, including a leather helmet and rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. Credit: NAVY.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army engineer's unit, on a transport bound for Liberia, Africa, take their daily setting up exercises on deck. The men are wearing a new light type of life preserver which allows freer move. Credit: Library of Congress.

Life preserver. John Weik's (Philadelphia) Kochbuecher [cookbooks] ... Alle fünf Bücher hier zu haben / invented and drawn on stone by J. Nissle ; Herline & Co. lith., Philada. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Albanian

jelek shpëtimi (life jacket), brez shpëtimi (lifebelt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزام النجاة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спасителен пояс (buoy, float, lifebelt, scaphander). (various references)

Czech

záchrance života (life saver). (various references)

French

ceinture de sauvetage (lifebelt). (various references)

Greek 

σωσίβιο (life belt, life jacket, lifebelt). (various references)

Hebrew 

ח�'ורת �"צל�" (life jacket, lifebelt). (various references)

Hungarian

mentõmellény (life jacket), mentõkészülék. (various references)

Italian

salvagente (life buoy, lifebelt, lifejacket, traffic island). (various references)

Pig Latin

ifelay eserverpray

Portuguese

colete salva-vidas (life-jacket). (various references)

Russian 

спасательный пояс (life belt, lifebelt, life-belt, safety belt, water wings), спасательное средство. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrsta oružja, pojas za spasavanje (life belt, life jacket, life saver, lifebelt). (various references)

Spanish

chaleco salvavidas (life jacket). (various references)

Swedish

livbälte (lifebelt), knölpåk (cudgel), flytväst (life jacket). (various references)

Turkish

topuzlu baston, cankurtaran malzemesi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: persevere, pilferers, preserver, relievers, replevies, reprieves, revelries.

-5 letters: perverse, pilferer, prefiles, prefires, prelives, preserve, referees, reliever, relieves, repliers, reprieve, reserver, resilver, revelers, reverers, reveries, reverser, revilers, silverer, sleepier, sliverer.