Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

life-arrow

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables: life-ar-row
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.

Example Sentences

"Colonel Delvigne, of the French army, invented a life-arrow, to be fired from an ordinary musket."
"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."
"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."

Inflected Forms

life-arrows (plural)

Questions

What does life-arrow mean?: A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.

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