life belt
a beltlike life preserver.
Origin of life belt
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How to use life belt in a sentence
The passengers were roused and orders given to get them on deck, and life belts were served out.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentIt weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts.
A Boswell of Baghdad | E. V. LucasAround their waists they wore life belts taken from the boats, which lay on the sand where they had been pulled up.
The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner | Wilbur LawtonThe hurl of the sea is landwards, and their life-belts will float them.
My Danish Sweetheart., Volume 1 of 3 | William Clark RussellOh, yes; I have heard of certain impostors with their life-belts.
A Book of Ghosts | Sabine Baring-Gould
British Dictionary definitions for life belt
a ring filled with buoyant material or air, used to keep a person afloat when in danger of drowning
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