"life car" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "life car (plural life cars)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Watercraft",
          "orig": "en:Watercraft",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service:",
          "text": "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 breeches, the whole suspended from a traveller block by suitable lanyards. It usually carries one person at a time, although two have frequently been brought ashore together. The life-car, first introduced in 1848, is a boat of corrugated iron with a convex iron cover, having a hatch in the top for the admission of passengers, which can be fastened either from within or without, and a few perforations to admit air, with raised edges to exclude water.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, Chapter 9:",
          "text": "This was no explanation to the girls until Tom Cameron came running back from the house and announced that the crew were going to try to reach the schooner with a line.\n\"They'll try to save them with the breeches buoy,\" he said. \"They've got a life-car here; but they never use that thing nowadays if they can help. Too many castaways have been near smothered in it, they say. If they can get a line over the wreck they'll haul the crew in, one at a time.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-life_car-en-noun-bi7ZlxWX",
      "links": [
        [
          "watertight",
          "watertight"
        ],
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ],
        [
          "box",
          "box"
        ],
        [
          "wreck",
          "wreck"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "shore",
          "shore"
        ],
        [
          "haul",
          "haul"
        ],
        [
          "wave",
          "wave"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) 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."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "life raft"
        },
        {
          "word": "lifeboat"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lifecar"
        },
        {
          "word": "life-car"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "life car"
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      "form": "life cars",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "life raft"
    },
    {
      "word": "lifeboat"
    }
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          "ref": "1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service:",
          "text": "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 breeches, the whole suspended from a traveller block by suitable lanyards. It usually carries one person at a time, although two have frequently been brought ashore together. The life-car, first introduced in 1848, is a boat of corrugated iron with a convex iron cover, having a hatch in the top for the admission of passengers, which can be fastened either from within or without, and a few perforations to admit air, with raised edges to exclude water.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, Chapter 9:",
          "text": "This was no explanation to the girls until Tom Cameron came running back from the house and announced that the crew were going to try to reach the schooner with a line.\n\"They'll try to save them with the breeches buoy,\" he said. \"They've got a life-car here; but they never use that thing nowadays if they can help. Too many castaways have been near smothered in it, they say. If they can get a line over the wreck they'll haul the crew in, one at a time.\"",
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      ],
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        "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."
      ],
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        ],
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          "boat",
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        ],
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          "box",
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          "wreck",
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        ],
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          "vessel",
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          "shore",
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          "haul"
        ],
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          "wave"
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        "(historical) 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."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lifecar"
    },
    {
      "word": "life-car"
    }
  ],
  "word": "life car"
}