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life belts
n. (life belt English)
Usage examples of "life belts".
Back at the platform of wooden boxes where we'd spent the night I pushed aside the two loose battens in the outboard row, cautiously lifted down the boxes with the compasses and binoculars, shoved them to one side, took down the box with the aircraft-type life belts and emptied out the contents.
The rest worked on, slowly, heavily, in the manner of men with life belts buckled, waiting for the inevitable.
Inside the boat they made themselves comfortable with life belts to lie back against the thwarts.
He had emptied the bridge locker of all the life belts before jumping into the water.