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ˈlife-boat
A boat specially constructed for saving lives in cases of loss of a vessel at sea.
In 1785 a patent was granted to Mr. Lukin for an ‘insubmergible boat,’ but the word life-boat is not used in the specification.
1801Ann. Reg., Chron. 14 Two life boats have been finished by Mr. Greathead of Shields. 1802Trans. Soc. Arts XX. 283 The Gold Medal and Fifty Guineas were..voted..to Mr. Henry Greathead..for a Boat of peculiar construction, named a Life-Boat, in consequence of the lives of many persons shipwrecked having been preserved by it. 1811Moore 'Tis sweet to behold ii, Yet who would not turn with a fonder emotion, To gaze on the life-boat, though rugged and worn. 1860All Year Round No. 65. 344 The life-boat can brave storms in which a coast-guard boat or fisher boat could not venture to put out.
b. attrib.: life-boat day, a day on which collections are made for the maintenance of life-boats; lifeboat-man, a member of a life-boat's crew.
1858Homans Dict. Comm. 1215/2 The National Life-Boat Institution. Ibid. 1216/1 A member of the Life-boat Committee. 1860All Year Round No. 65. 345 The life-boat⁓men's pay. 1864Atkinson Stanton Grange 40 Shoes on the lifeboat principle, selfacting dischargers of all extra water. 1898Daily News 20 Apr. 4/5 A meeting..for the purpose of establishing a lifeboat day in the town. |