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Rescuer

Rescuer \Res"cu*er\ (-k?-?r), n. One who rescues.

Wiktionary
rescuer

n. A person who rescues someone or something.

WordNet
rescuer
  1. n. a person who rescues you from harm or danger [syn: savior, saviour, deliverer]

  2. someone who saves something from danger or violence [syn: recoverer, saver]

Wikipedia
Rescuer

A Rescuer is a person who rescues something from harm or danger. They are trained in technical rescue, diver rescue, mountain rescue, extrication rescue, or/and advance technical firefighting. The term is commonly used with people who are doing a rescue and in some careers use "Rescuer" as the job title.

The main job of a rescuer is to save lives in a dangerous environment.

Usage examples of "rescuer".

The equal shock of finding his rescuers to be his friends, and the rescuing vessel the Bandersnatch, completed the good work, and that deep abyss of two forgotten years, wherein had been lost the great war and many other memories less vast, was filled.

Soon only three or four remained, and I was left to wonder whether my rescuers were after all not the kindly mountaineers I had taken them to be, bue merely superstitious savages.

Over the time he had known Gellor, the one-eyed man had been many things to him - fatherlike, a mentor, a leader, a rescuer, and more.

All movements of unprotected rescuers had to be preceded by exploration by the trained rescue corps, who analyzed the gases, as the fire still continued to burn, and watched closely for falls, possible explosions, or a revival of the fire.

The barrier closed against rescuers, Gilden swung around and brandished a revolver of his own.

Flimflam had been thrown kinetically across the room just as the rescuers arrived.

Geordie was bending over him, had seized him by the arm, was slinging him on his broad young back before ever Shiner saw the face of his rescuer, and Geordie, with his helpless burden, was stumbling up the height again before Nolan could join and aid him.

This brave lad is now dubbed Sir James, subduer of fierce dragons and rescuer of beautiful ladies in distress.

At this command, the men who held Theos relaxed their grasp, and he, breathless and burning with indignation at the treatment he had received, shook himself quickly free of all restraint, and sprang forward, confronting his rescuer.

Just, waits with that traitor de Tournay, and two other men unknown to you, for the arrival of the mysterious rescuer, whose identity has for so long puzzled our Committee of Public Safety--the audacious Scarlet Pimpernel.

CHAPTER XI With the new morning came fresh energy and a spasm of conscience as I thought of poor Heru and the shabby sort of rescuer I was to lie about with these pretty triflers while she remained in peril.

Glorious creatures enjoyed drinks, and Algol, their rescuer, secured their lodgings, showed them up to a trendy room, then took them back down where the Fashionables gathered, set them at a table and asked them what they would have.

So Maia drifted in and out of anoxic slumber, vibrations along the shovel blade telling her how slow the progress of the rescuers remained.

And not only small, riveting stories like the one about the rescuers at the Appalachian School of Law, but larger stories of potentially great significance to society at large.

Soon after the law school rampage, criminologist and scholar John Lott ran a LexisNexis search on the story and came up with this: Only 4 of 208 news reports that he found mentioned that the rescuers had guns.