A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt.
1A life belt is hurled from a great height, falls slowly, slowly.
2Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
3He was supported by a life belt carelessly strapped around him.
4I'm pretty good at it, and we'll have a life belt.
5So picking up the two cats and a life belt, she hurried on deck.
6By the time Barclay sees you've got a life belt it'll be too late.
7Someone managed to throw her a life belt but it failed to reach her.
8She lost the life belt when she went overboard and didn't expect to reach shore.
9Larson writes about one passenger, Dwight Harris, who brought his own custom made life belt.
10I see a fellow just as you described, only he's not wearing a life belt.
11The life belt was cumbersome and very little help.
12There's the life belt, on top of the icebox.
13But we had to have a life belt.
14In another five minutes I knew it was all over, as far as the life belt was concerned.
15Still dazed, I stumbled through the nearest sea door and went toward my cabin for my life belt.
Translations for life belt