| 单词 | breeches-buoy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreeches-buoy breeches-buoy n. a life-saving apparatus consisting of a life-buoy with suspended canvass support resembling breeches through which the legs are put. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > means of > means of saving life > from ship or drowning plank1608 cradle1839 plug1841 anchor ball1858 breeches-buoy1880 Lyle gun1880 life gun1910 Schermuly1922 1880 Boy's Own Paper III. 52/1 A life-line, furnished with a ‘breeches-buoy’ (resembling a pair of canvas breeches with the legs cut off) was secured to the wreck. < as lemmas |
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