Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a raft-like construction designed to save life in case of shipwreck.
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Examples
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For who can resist the gallantry of David Hart Dyke staying aboard the tilting hull of HMS Coventry, or Noel Coward and what remains of his crew clinging to their life-raft in In Which We Serve, and Coward commanding, as his destroyer finally goes down: "Three cheers for the ship!"
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The book as a solitary life-raft adrift and apart from the clamor of modern life...
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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The book as a solitary life-raft adrift and apart from the clamor of modern life...
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Deploying once again the tired and false charge of “moral equivalence” — a term that has done quite a bit of work over the years as a life-raft for sinking conservative foreign policy arguments — Krauthammer writes:
Wonk Room » Krauthammer Tours The Border Of Gaffneyland 2009
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The book as a solitary life-raft adrift and apart from the clamor of modern life...
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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The book as a solitary life-raft adrift and apart from the clamor of modern life...
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Meanwhile, Hearst is working on its own reader, the Skiff (a name that has occasioned the predictable life-raft jokes).
Tablets From Above 2010
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At one point, he saw a life-raft with six or seven people hanging on to the outside, and man on a stretcher inside.
Hearing Raises Questions on MMS's Policing of Oil Companies 2010
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Linette was a life-raft for me, because she understood me, but I had the feeling that she was somewhat understood by many — or at least, she moved more freely than I through the school, less concerned over how well others read her.
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Meanwhile, Hearst is working on its own reader, the Skiff (a name that has occasioned the predictable life-raft jokes).
Tablets From Above 2010
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