life-car
life-car is the alternative form of life car.
Meaning of life car
Noun
life car (plural life cars)
- A watertight boat or box, travelling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore, used to haul people through the waves in a rescue.
- From this hawser the breeches-buoy or life-car is suspended and drawn between the ship and shore of the endless whip-line. The life-car can also be drawn like a boat between ship and shore without the use of a hawser. The breeches-buoy is a cork life-buoy to which is attached a pair of short canvas...1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service
Forms of life-car
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Questions about life-car
- What is life-car the alternative form of?
- Life-car is the alternative form of life car.
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