life-arrows
life-arrows is the plural of life-arrow.
Meaning of life-arrow
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
Questions about life-arrows
- What is life-arrows the plural of?
- Life-arrows is the plural of life-arrow.
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