life car

noun

a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.

Also called ark, safety car.

Origin of life car

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Words nearby life car

life annuity, life arrow, life assurance, life belt, life buoy, life car, life coach, life cycle, life estate, life expectancy, life float

Example sentences from the Web for life car

The principal apparatus consists of surf- and life-boats, Lyle gun and breeches-buoy apparatus and life-car.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 5 |Various
That life-car, sir, was invented by Captain Douglass Ottinger, and this is the first one ever used.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 |Various
The life-car was moving along the upper line bound for the wreck.

The Knights of the White Shield |Edward A. Rand
The life-car can also be drawn like a boat between ship and shore without the use of a hawser.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 5 |Various

From this hawser the breeches-buoy or life-car is suspended and drawn between the ship and shore of the endless whip-line.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 5 |Various

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life car

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Origin of life car

Words nearby life car

Example sentences from the Web for life car