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View synonyms for life belt
life belt
noun
- a beltlike life preserver.
life belt
noun
- a ring filled with buoyant material or air, used to keep a person afloat when in danger of drowning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of life belt1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
A millionaire might offer more for a life belt as a souvenir than a drowning man could pay for it to save his life.
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His father told him to run and hunt round for the life-belt, and he went to left instead of to right, and missed of seeing it.
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It was a bad business that the life-belt was well away at the far end, and I had no chance to handle it in time.
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Each man and woman get a life belt ready, but you need not put them on until you are told.
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The captain led Chester away from the dead, out to the open deck, and buckled around him a life-belt.
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