lifeboat
verbEtymology From life + boat.
1
To rescue; to carry to safety
lifeboat
nounUK /ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/ · US /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/
Etymology From life + boat.
1
Nautical, Transport A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat1971, Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, “Halo of Flies”, in Killer, performed by Alice Cooper:
- In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 322, about Port Eynon:
2
Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
- Derived terms
- LEM lifeboat, lifeboat ethics, lifeboatism, lifeboatman, lifeboatsman, LM lifeboat, lunar lifeboat