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Carley|ˈkɑːlɪ|
The name of an American, Horace S. Carley, used attrib. (chiefly as Carley float) to designate a type of large raft carried on board ships for use in emergency (see quot. 1922). Also ellipt.
[1903U.S. Pat. 734,118 Horace S. Carley of Hydepark, Massachusets, Assignor to Carley Life Float Company, of Philadelphia... I, Horace S. Carley,..have invented a new and useful Improvement in Life-Rafts.] 1915Illustr. War News 26 May 23/2 Our illustration shows a valuable life-saving device in the form of the Calley [sic] Life-Buoys. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 451/1 The Carley Life Raft..is made in various sizes. A large copper pipe is bent into the form of an O, brazed up to be airtight, surrounded by cork and canvas, provided with a strong rope netting to form a floor within the O, and fitted with hand ropes, etc. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 82 ‘Carley Floats’, life-saving rafts of circular shape. 1942Ann. Reg. 1941 131 A search..produced no more evidence of the catastrophe than two empty life-boats and a Carley float. 1951N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea iii. vi. 161 Alongside the boats were the Carley floats. Ibid., There were two Carleys. |