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life preserver

NOUN
flotation device
Synonyms
STRONGEST
life jacket life vest
WEAK
Mae West buoy cork jacket life belt life net lifeline swimmies

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His pioneer life had given him a vein of humor which became his "Life-preserver" in times of stress; it had also given him a love for human liberty that was unaffected.

From The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children by Various

Life-preserver in a sea like this means being smothered in a few minutes, and such a raft as we could make would be knocked to pieces and us washed off.

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.