life-arrow
life-arrow noun: a stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.
Noun
life-arrow (plural life-arrows)
- A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.
- Colonel Delvigne, of the French army, invented a life-arrow, to be fired from an ordinary musket.1885, Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia
- Numerous life-arrows, kites and similar devices have been invented to carry lines to wrecked vessels, but none has proved superior to the Lyle gun.1897, Day Otis Kellogg, New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Forms of life-arrow
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Questions about life-arrow
- What does life-arrow mean?
- Life-arrow means a stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.
- What part of speech is life-arrow?
- Life-arrow is a noun.
- What is the plural of life-arrow?
- The plural of life-arrow is life-arrows.
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