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单词 life rocket
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life 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.
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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.
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