life preserver
See also: lifepreserver
English
a life preserver
Noun
life preserver (plural life preservers)
- (US) A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat.
- Synonym: (UK) life buoy
- (dated, UK) A short club with a weighted end.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “With Cat-Like Tread”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:
- Here's your crowbar and your centrebit / Your life-preserver — you may want to hit!
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet:
- He tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike.
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Translations
buoyant ring or vest
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See also
life preserver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
life preservers on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
- “life preserver”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “life preserver”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “life preserver”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “life preserver” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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