lifeboat

lifeboat
noun
ADJECTIVE
motor
inshore, offshore (both BrE)
VERB + LIFEBOAT
get into, man, take to

The crew took to the lifeboats.

call out (BrE)

The lifeboat was called out five times in the January storms.

launch
LIFEBOAT + VERB
be stationed …  (BrE)

The lifeboat is stationed just along the coast from here.

LIFEBOAT + NOUN
service (BrE)
crew (BrE)
station
PREPOSITION
aboard a/the lifeboat, on board a/the lifeboat

two survivors on board the lifeboat

in a/the lifeboat, on a/the lifeboat

There was only room for ten people in the lifeboat.

Lifeboat is used before these nouns: ↑crew, ↑station

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