WordNet
n. rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning [syn: life preserver, preserver]
Usage examples of "flotation device".
We know he had a personal flotation device, and he was hale and hearty enough to think about saving someone's skin other than his own.
There'd been line in his rucksack, but that was lying on a hillside somewhere in Albania right now, along with a flotation device, most of his shotgun ammo, and five hundred rounds of 7.
He scanned the ocean around him, praying for a glimpse of a flotation device or a rubber raft.
He fumbled open the flotation device pocket, extracted the dye marker, and broke it open.
The model was only part of the collection of memorabilia, photos, and paintings, even a flotation device, that was sprinkled around the spacious living room.
He held his rucksack in front of his body with his left hand, using it as shield and flotation device.
Stantz grabbed a long coiled cord with a bobbing flotation device on the end.
He took the cord in his hand and, swinging the flotation device over his head, cast the line into the water like a master fisherman.
Amelia Sachs let go of the plastic water jug - her improvised flotation device - and reached out a wrinkled hand to grip a branch.
Bird Dog gradually relaxed into the flotation device, letting it carry his weight.
Using a specially designed flotation device, swimming provided her with enough exercise to keep her body toned and her legs from looking like atrophied sticks.
The tiny personal flotation device was no thicker than a bicycle inner tube.
She hit the release on her Personal Flotation Device, called a Mae West by all and sundry, and rolled up to the surface of the water.
Michelle moved some cables aside to read a half-hidden label attached to one of the seat backs: use seat cushion for flotation device.
The following spring, he demonstrated for a few friends and neighbors the flotation device he had made, geared to operate a floodgate in the irrigation system.