lifeboatn.

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪfbəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., boat n.¹

Etymology: < life n. + boat n.¹ With sense 1b compare earlier life raft n. at life n. Compounds 3.

a. A specially constructed boat launched from land to rescue people in distress at sea.Early experimentation on a canot insubmersible had been conducted in France in the mid 18th cent. In 1785 a U.K. patent was granted to Lionel Lukin (1742–1834), a London coachbuilder, for an ‘insubmergible boat’, and several boats were built to his designs. The word lifeboat is not used in the patent specification.However, credit for constructing the first purpose-built lifeboat is often accorded to Henry Greathead (1757–1816) of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and William Wouldhave (1751–1821), of North Shields. Following the wreck of the Adventure in the River Tyne in 1789, with the loss of all lives, a competition was organized in South Shields to design a lifeboat. The Committee eventually commissioned the construction by Greathead of a boat largely following Wouldhave's design, and the first such boat was launched in 1790. The early records relate to lifeboats operating off the north-east coast of England. Greathead went on to build other lifeboats for this area and elsewhere.motor lifeboat: see motor n. and adj. Compounds 1a(a).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > lifeboat or raft

boatlOE

lifeboat1797

safety boat1814

life raft1819

life craft1844

raft1849

redningskoite1906

Carley float1915

crash boat1936

1776 P. P. Burdett Chart Mersey (ed. 2) in N. Leach Origins Life-boat Service (1992) iv. 22 N.B. On the Strand about a Mile below Formby Lower Land Mark there is a Boat House, and a boat kept ready to save lives.

1789 Newcastle Advertiser 2 May in C. Evans Rescue at Sea v. 22/1 (advt.) A reward of two Guineas will be given to any Person producing a Plan..of a Boat, capable of containing 24 Persons:..the Intention of it being to preserve Lives of Seamen.]

1797 Newcastle Courant 23 Dec. 2/4 Many Persons have suffered lately by too great a Solicitude to attain the Shore; and they may rely on the Life Boat coming off to their Assistance whenever a Signal is made for that Purpose.

?1798 (title) Life boat. The accounts of the very great benefits that have arisen in the North Parts of England, from the use of Life boats, in saving the lives of many wreck'd and distressed Mariners.

1800 Caledonian Mercury 6 Jan. 3/3 A messenger was sent off to Shields for their life-boat.

1811 T. Moore 'Tis Sweet to Behold ii Yet who would not turn with a fonder emotion, To gaze on the life-boat, though rugged and worn.

1860 All Year Round 21 July 344 The life-boat can brave storms in which a coast-guard boat or fisher boat could not venture to put out.

1886 Times 2 Jan. 3 The lifeboats..dandy Snowdrop, of Ramsgate..dandy Lady's Page, of Scarborough..dandy Seabird, of Yarmouth, saved vessel and six.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. June 415/1 In the case of life-boats liable to ground on sandbanks..jet-propulsion has obvious advantages.

1963 V. B. Cranley 27,000 Miles through Austral. xi. 78 A new life-boat donated to the local surf life-savers. Their performance of swimming and rescue work was really outstanding.

2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 130 There's a full-time mechanic in each station who maintains the lifeboats and keeps the place ticking over, doing odd jobs and whatever.

b. A small craft, either rigid or inflatable, carried on board a ship and used to escape in an emergency. Cf. life craft n., life raft n. at life n. Compounds 3.The first ship's lifeboat is generally considered to have been that designed by James Mather (1799–1873) of South Shields, Tyne and Wear in 1826, for use on his father's ship the Mary.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel kept ready for emergency

standby1796

lifeboat1831

1809 J. Bremner (title) Plan for converting every ship her own boat into a temporary life boat, for saving lives in cases of shipwreck.]

1831 Times 14 Sept. 3/6 [Suggestion made in a letter to Earl Grey and Lord Althorp.] That all vessels employed in steam navigation, for conveyance of passengers, &c., shall henceforth, by act of Parliament, be furnished with two life-boats.

1852 Watertown (Wisconsin) Chron. 18 Feb. On the starboard side was a No. 2 lifeboat, in which were twelve seamen trying to lower her, but were prevented by her being fast to the keel crane.

1887 F. T. Marzials Life Dickens vi. 74 A storm supervened, which swept away the paddle-boxes and stove in the life-boats, and they seem to have been in real peril.

1926 Travel Nov. 62/2 Not a thing was out of place. Every lifeboat was in its davits.

1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 131 A search..produced no more evidence of the catastrophe than two empty life-boats and a Carley float.

2001 D. Mitchell Number 9 Dream 79 The second-graders are arguing about what will happen when the ferry sinks and we have to fight for the lifeboats.

c. Originally and chiefly Science Fiction. Any (hypothetical) small craft used in space as an emergency vehicle, or for travel between larger vessels.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > fictional spacecraft

starship1882

cruiser1923

lifeboat1934

skimmer1949

1934 E. E. Smith Skylark of Valeron in Astounding Stories Sept. 39/2 The human beings were no longer aboard; the little lifeboat that was Skylark Two was no longer in her spherical berth.

1959 Washington Post 9 Nov. a2/4 A space ‘life boat’ with simple controls, propulsion and navigation equipment for travel to another space vehicle or space station.

1970 Times 15 Apr. 10/3 This ungainly spider-like contraption provided a space lifeboat for the astronauts.

2006 Analog June 107/2 No mere lifeboat could possibly sustain a biosphere across years of interstellar flight, so the size of Harmony's crew had been set by the suspended-animation capacity of its lifeboats.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. A means of support, survival, or rescue; (Banking) an emergency fund made available to a bank or other financial institution in difficulty.

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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > that which or one who supports

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columna1620

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lifeboat1832

standback1915

1832 N. Adams Remarks Unitarian Belief iii. 52 Your minister is your idol—we fear, your lifeboat, which you cling to instead of Christ.

1893 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 47 The Church?—alas! a lifeboat, warped and sunk.

1975 Economist 19 July 85/3 Barclays is expected to assume the whole of the outstanding liability to the lifeboat.

1991 Investors Chron. 26 July 8/1 The eight largest UK clearing banks have had to launch a £200m lifeboat for centralised mortgage lender National Home Loans.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 Sept. i. 5/4 We are still a very vulnerable society—and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

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1811 J. Cartwright Let. 1 Oct. in Life & Corr. Major Cartwright (1826) II. 15 I am now only detained in town by a life-boat experiment, and expect, in a week or less, to go into the North for two months or more.

1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1215/2 The National Life-Boat Institution.

1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1216/1 A member of the Life-boat Committee.

1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 40 Shoes on the lifeboat principle, selfacting dischargers of all extra water.

1940 V. Phillips in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Nov. 31/2 The rear lifeboat lock was open but the inner door was heat-warped and jammed shut.

1975 Times 3 Jan. 13/1 The support operation for Burnah is being personally handled by..the man who organized the Bank's lifeboat operation for the secondary banks.

1990 Lifeboat (RNLI) Spring 232 The cameras recorded the setting up of a new lifeboat station at Ballyglass in the Republic of Ireland.

2005 Independent 14 Feb. 15/1 Passengers on a chain ferry had to be rescued by a lifeboat crew yesterday after the vessel broke free in gale-force winds and drifted towards stormy seas.

C2.

a. With first element in the singular.

lifeboat day n. a day on which charitable collections are made for the maintenance of lifeboats and in support of lifeboat organizations.

ΚΠ

1890 Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 4/6 Lifeboat day at North Berwick... In the course of the afternoon a sum over £50 was collected in aid of the lifeboat fund.

1957 Times 22 Mar. 1/2 The Royal National Life-boat Institution wishes to thank all those voluntary workers who so generously gave their help on London Life-boat Day.

lifeboatman n. a member of the crew of a lifeboat.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > lifeboat-man

lifeboatsman1854

lifeboatman1860

1860 All Year Round 21 July 345 The life-boatmen's pay.

1935 Times 25 Apr. 29/6 The life-boat man who turns out to the signal gun,..goes indoors afterwards and says nothing about it.

1970 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xxxiii. 137 Lifeboatman..(taking off his sou'wester and shaking the water off it) Oh it's terrible up on deck.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 3/1 The lifeboat men were pleading: ‘You've got to go now, you've got to go now,’ but they were being ignored.

b. With first element in the plural.

lifeboatsman n. rare = lifeboatman n. at Compounds 2a.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > lifeboat-man

lifeboatsman1854

lifeboatman1860

1854 Times 18 Dec. 12/6 The men were struggling in the water, but they were picked up by the life-boatsmen.

1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 14 He has spent more than 34 years as a lifeboatsman at Mallaig..and gives wave-by-wave accounts of incidents he was involved in.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lifeboat
释义	lifeboatn. Brit. /ˈlʌɪfbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., boat n.¹ Etymology: < life n. + boat n.¹ With sense 1b compare earlier life raft n. at life n. Compounds 3. 1. a. A specially constructed boat launched from land to rescue people in distress at sea.Early experimentation on a canot insubmersible had been conducted in France in the mid 18th cent. In 1785 a U.K. patent was granted to Lionel Lukin (1742–1834), a London coachbuilder, for an ‘insubmergible boat’, and several boats were built to his designs. The word lifeboat is not used in the patent specification.However, credit for constructing the first purpose-built lifeboat is often accorded to Henry Greathead (1757–1816) of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and William Wouldhave (1751–1821), of North Shields. Following the wreck of the Adventure in the River Tyne in 1789, with the loss of all lives, a competition was organized in South Shields to design a lifeboat. The Committee eventually commissioned the construction by Greathead of a boat largely following Wouldhave's design, and the first such boat was launched in 1790. The early records relate to lifeboats operating off the north-east coast of England. Greathead went on to build other lifeboats for this area and elsewhere.motor lifeboat: see motor n. and adj. Compounds 1a(a). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > lifeboat or raft boatlOE lifeboat1797 safety boat1814 life raft1819 life craft1844 raft1849 redningskoite1906 Carley float1915 crash boat1936 1776 P. P. Burdett Chart Mersey (ed. 2) in N. Leach Origins Life-boat Service (1992) iv. 22 N.B. On the Strand about a Mile below Formby Lower Land Mark there is a Boat House, and a boat kept ready to save lives. 1789 Newcastle Advertiser 2 May in C. Evans Rescue at Sea v. 22/1 (advt.) A reward of two Guineas will be given to any Person producing a Plan..of a Boat, capable of containing 24 Persons:..the Intention of it being to preserve Lives of Seamen.] 1797 Newcastle Courant 23 Dec. 2/4 Many Persons have suffered lately by too great a Solicitude to attain the Shore; and they may rely on the Life Boat coming off to their Assistance whenever a Signal is made for that Purpose. ?1798 (title) Life boat. The accounts of the very great benefits that have arisen in the North Parts of England, from the use of Life boats, in saving the lives of many wreck'd and distressed Mariners. 1800 Caledonian Mercury 6 Jan. 3/3 A messenger was sent off to Shields for their life-boat. 1811 T. Moore 'Tis Sweet to Behold ii Yet who would not turn with a fonder emotion, To gaze on the life-boat, though rugged and worn. 1860 All Year Round 21 July 344 The life-boat can brave storms in which a coast-guard boat or fisher boat could not venture to put out. 1886 Times 2 Jan. 3 The lifeboats..dandy Snowdrop, of Ramsgate..dandy Lady's Page, of Scarborough..dandy Seabird, of Yarmouth, saved vessel and six. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. June 415/1 In the case of life-boats liable to ground on sandbanks..jet-propulsion has obvious advantages. 1963 V. B. Cranley 27,000 Miles through Austral. xi. 78 A new life-boat donated to the local surf life-savers. Their performance of swimming and rescue work was really outstanding. 2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 130 There's a full-time mechanic in each station who maintains the lifeboats and keeps the place ticking over, doing odd jobs and whatever. b. A small craft, either rigid or inflatable, carried on board a ship and used to escape in an emergency. Cf. life craft n., life raft n. at life n. Compounds 3.The first ship's lifeboat is generally considered to have been that designed by James Mather (1799–1873) of South Shields, Tyne and Wear in 1826, for use on his father's ship the Mary. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel kept ready for emergency standby1796 lifeboat1831 1809 J. Bremner (title) Plan for converting every ship her own boat into a temporary life boat, for saving lives in cases of shipwreck.] 1831 Times 14 Sept. 3/6 [Suggestion made in a letter to Earl Grey and Lord Althorp.] That all vessels employed in steam navigation, for conveyance of passengers, &c., shall henceforth, by act of Parliament, be furnished with two life-boats. 1852 Watertown (Wisconsin) Chron. 18 Feb. On the starboard side was a No. 2 lifeboat, in which were twelve seamen trying to lower her, but were prevented by her being fast to the keel crane. 1887 F. T. Marzials Life Dickens vi. 74 A storm supervened, which swept away the paddle-boxes and stove in the life-boats, and they seem to have been in real peril. 1926 Travel Nov. 62/2 Not a thing was out of place. Every lifeboat was in its davits. 1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 131 A search..produced no more evidence of the catastrophe than two empty life-boats and a Carley float. 2001 D. Mitchell Number 9 Dream 79 The second-graders are arguing about what will happen when the ferry sinks and we have to fight for the lifeboats. c. Originally and chiefly Science Fiction. Any (hypothetical) small craft used in space as an emergency vehicle, or for travel between larger vessels. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > fictional spacecraft starship1882 cruiser1923 lifeboat1934 skimmer1949 1934 E. E. Smith Skylark of Valeron in Astounding Stories Sept. 39/2 The human beings were no longer aboard; the little lifeboat that was Skylark Two was no longer in her spherical berth. 1959 Washington Post 9 Nov. a2/4 A space ‘life boat’ with simple controls, propulsion and navigation equipment for travel to another space vehicle or space station. 1970 Times 15 Apr. 10/3 This ungainly spider-like contraption provided a space lifeboat for the astronauts. 2006 Analog June 107/2 No mere lifeboat could possibly sustain a biosphere across years of interstellar flight, so the size of Harmony's crew had been set by the suspended-animation capacity of its lifeboats. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. A means of support, survival, or rescue; (Banking) an emergency fund made available to a bank or other financial institution in difficulty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > that which or one who supports crutchc900 upholda1066 uptakinga1300 arma1382 postc1387 staff1390 sustainerc1390 undersetterc1400 potent?a1439 buttressa1450 supportalc1450 comfort1455 supporta1456 studa1500 poge1525 underpropper1532 shore1534 staya1542 prop1562 stoopa1572 underprop1579 sustentation1585 rest1590 underpinning1590 supportance1597 sustinent1603 lean1610 reliance1613 hingea1616 columna1620 spar1630 gable end1788 lifeboat1832 standback1915 1832 N. Adams Remarks Unitarian Belief iii. 52 Your minister is your idol—we fear, your lifeboat, which you cling to instead of Christ. 1893 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 47 The Church?—alas! a lifeboat, warped and sunk. 1975 Economist 19 July 85/3 Barclays is expected to assume the whole of the outstanding liability to the lifeboat. 1991 Investors Chron. 26 July 8/1 The eight largest UK clearing banks have had to launch a £200m lifeboat for centralised mortgage lender National Home Loans. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 Sept. i. 5/4 We are still a very vulnerable society—and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1811 J. Cartwright Let. 1 Oct. in Life & Corr. Major Cartwright (1826) II. 15 I am now only detained in town by a life-boat experiment, and expect, in a week or less, to go into the North for two months or more. 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1215/2 The National Life-Boat Institution. 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1216/1 A member of the Life-boat Committee. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 40 Shoes on the lifeboat principle, selfacting dischargers of all extra water. 1940 V. Phillips in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Nov. 31/2 The rear lifeboat lock was open but the inner door was heat-warped and jammed shut. 1975 Times 3 Jan. 13/1 The support operation for Burnah is being personally handled by..the man who organized the Bank's lifeboat operation for the secondary banks. 1990 Lifeboat (RNLI) Spring 232 The cameras recorded the setting up of a new lifeboat station at Ballyglass in the Republic of Ireland. 2005 Independent 14 Feb. 15/1 Passengers on a chain ferry had to be rescued by a lifeboat crew yesterday after the vessel broke free in gale-force winds and drifted towards stormy seas. C2. a. With first element in the singular. lifeboat day n. a day on which charitable collections are made for the maintenance of lifeboats and in support of lifeboat organizations. ΚΠ 1890 Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 4/6 Lifeboat day at North Berwick... In the course of the afternoon a sum over £50 was collected in aid of the lifeboat fund. 1957 Times 22 Mar. 1/2 The Royal National Life-boat Institution wishes to thank all those voluntary workers who so generously gave their help on London Life-boat Day. lifeboatman n. a member of the crew of a lifeboat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > lifeboat-man lifeboatsman1854 lifeboatman1860 1860 All Year Round 21 July 345 The life-boatmen's pay. 1935 Times 25 Apr. 29/6 The life-boat man who turns out to the signal gun,..goes indoors afterwards and says nothing about it. 1970 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xxxiii. 137 Lifeboatman..(taking off his sou'wester and shaking the water off it) Oh it's terrible up on deck. 1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 3/1 The lifeboat men were pleading: ‘You've got to go now, you've got to go now,’ but they were being ignored. b. With first element in the plural. lifeboatsman n. rare = lifeboatman n. at Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > lifeboat-man lifeboatsman1854 lifeboatman1860 1854 Times 18 Dec. 12/6 The men were struggling in the water, but they were picked up by the life-boatsmen. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 14 He has spent more than 34 years as a lifeboatsman at Mallaig..and gives wave-by-wave accounts of incidents he was involved in. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797
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