life buoy

any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.

Words nearby life buoy

The life-buoy lies unnoticed on the shelf above the berth as long as the sea is calm and everything goes well.

Expositions of Holy Scripture |Alexander Maclaren
The last words seemed to present themselves to him as a sort of life-buoy.

Bella Donna |Robert Hichens
If he was clinging to the life-buoy he might be all right, but where that was, was the question.

Sunshine Bill |W H G Kingston
But one had thrown him a life-buoy, and on this he floated until daylight, when an outbound tug picked him up.

The Boy Scouts Book of Stories |Various

I realized that if this continued my life-buoy would be destroyed; but I was helpless.

Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 |Various

life buoy

any of various kinds of buoyant device for keeping people afloat in an emergency