lifeboat
(noun) a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lifeboat (plural lifeboats)
(nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship)
(scifi) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship
• quarter boat, rowboat, raft
lifeboat (third-person singular simple present lifeboats, present participle lifeboating, simple past and past participle lifeboated)
To rescue; to carry to safety
Source: Wiktionary
Life"boat`, n.
Definition: A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 April 2025
(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
