OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24195

lifeboat

/ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bote salvavidas
A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the loc…
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