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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rocket used to convey a rope to a vessel in distress, so as to establish communication between it and the shore.
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“If a ship, therefore, is stranded on a low shelving shore, she is almost certain to be beyond the range of the life-rocket or of Manby's mortar.”
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852
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