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Webster 1913 Edition

Life-preserver

Life′-pre-servˊer

(līf′prē̍-zẽrvˊẽr)

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Noun.

An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water.

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Life′-pre-servˊing

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Adj.