Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A buoy having a large chamber filled with compressed gas and carrying a lamp.
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Examples
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I tore a gas-buoy from its rack and tossed it toward the screw, in which direction he must have been swept.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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