Life-preserver

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Life-preserver \Life"-pre*serv`er\
     (l[imac]f"pr[-e]*z[~e]rv`[~e]r), n.
     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. -- {Life"-pre*serv`ing}, a.
     [1913 Webster]