air jacket

Example Sentences

• "AIR-JACKET. A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water."
• "She wore an inflatable air jacket stolen from Air France."
• "1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16, […] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson."
• "Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing."
• "If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector."
• "In the first Daimler gasoline engines a current of air was forced through an air jacket surrounding the cylinder by means of a rotary fan mounted on the crank shaft."