The Collaborative International Dictionary
Life-preserver
Life-preserver \Life"-pre*serv`er\ (l[imac]f"pr[-e]*z[~e]rv`[~e]r), n. An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.
Usage examples of "life-preserver".
The tube of the life-preserver was held over the baler, and out trickled a small quantity of pure water, two thimblefuls apiece.
His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.
The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.