Carleyn.
/ˈkɑːli/ Used attributively (chiefly as Carley float) to designate a type of large raft carried on board ships for use in emergency (see quot. 1922). Also elliptical.
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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
1903 U.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.]
1915 Illustr. War News 26 May 23/2 Our illustration shows a valuable life-saving device in the form of the Calley [sic] Life-Buoys.
1922 Encycl. 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.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 82 ‘Carley Floats’, life-saving rafts of circular shape.
1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 131 A search..produced no more evidence of the catastrophe than two empty life-boats and a Carley float.
1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea iii. vi. 161 Alongside the boats were the Carley floats.
1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea iii. vi. 161 There were two Carleys.
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