"life-arrow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1885, Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia",
          "text": "Colonel Delvigne, of the French army, invented a life-arrow, to be fired from an ordinary musket.",
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          "ref": "1897, Day Otis Kellogg, New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica",
          "text": "Numerous life-arrows, kites and similar devices have been invented to carry lines to wrecked vessels, but none has proved superior to the Lyle gun.",
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          "ref": "1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana",
          "text": "There was a contrivance for rendering the rope visible to the crew, and another to assist those on shore to descry the exact position of the ship in distress. The life-arrow, a cue-shaped stick of mahogany, with the thinner end projecting beyond the end of the barrel, is fired from an ordinary musket, and can carry 80 yards with a mackerel line attached.",
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        "A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered."
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        "(historical) A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered."
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          "ref": "1897, Day Otis Kellogg, New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica",
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          "text": "There was a contrivance for rendering the rope visible to the crew, and another to assist those on shore to descry the exact position of the ship in distress. The life-arrow, a cue-shaped stick of mahogany, with the thinner end projecting beyond the end of the barrel, is fired from an ordinary musket, and can carry 80 yards with a mackerel line attached.",
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        "(historical) A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered."
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