| 单词 | life rocket | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife rocket   life rocket  n. now chiefly historical a rocket to which a line is attached, fired to establish communication with a vessel in distress; cf. life-shot n. ΚΠ 1842    Hull Packet 18 Feb. 4/3  				We are again obliged to omit the account of ‘Life Rocket Practice at Whitburn’,..which shall appear in our next. 1852    Times 15 Nov. 6/6  				Captain Bernard, of the Coast Guard..fired several rockets from Dennett's life rocket apparatus but all to no purpose. 1892    Liverpool Mercury 28 Sept. 7/1  				There was no necessity for them to have exercised the life rocket apparatus. 1956    W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 298/2  				Life rocket, a rocket designed to carry a line over, or to, a ship in distress. < as lemmas | 
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