Life Ring

Definition: Life Ring

Life Ring

Noun

1. A life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Life Ring

Crosswords: Life Ring

One of the ship's crewmen poses with a life ring and puppy, circa 1912-1915.Credit: NAVY.

Ship's officers and crew, circa 1931-1933, with her band seated on deck in front. Houston's Commanding Officer, Captain Robert A. Dawes, is seated in the center, behind the life ring. Note that most of the bandsmen appear to be Orientals.Credit: NAVY.

"Plankowners" among the ship's officers pose with her bridge wing scoreboard and life ring, following V-J Day 1945.Credit: NAVY.

At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1917. The steam launch at right has a life ring bearing the inscription "Receiving Ship At Boston". This pleasure craft was acquired by the Navy for World War I service and commissioned on 15 April 1917 as USS Politesse (SP-662). She was returned to her owner on 29 May 1919.Credit: NAVY.

In a harbor during World War I. The life ring on her railing, aft, features her name and "SP" number. Pirate was built as a pleasure craft in 1916. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 5 September 1917, and returned to her owner on 26 December 1918.Credit: NAVY.

Photographed during World War I. The life ring on her railing, aft, features her name and "SP" number. Built as a pleasure craft in 1916, Pirate was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 5 September 1917. She was returned to her owner on 26 December 1918.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Italian

ciambella (bun, donut, doughnut, jumble, ring-biscuit, rubber ring). (various references)

Pig Latin

ifelay ingray

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: refiling.

-1 letter: flinger, lingier, rifling.

-2 letters: filing, finger, firing, fringe, girlie, inlier, linger, linier, riling.

-3 letters: elfin, feign, filer, finer, flier, fling, genii, grief, infer, ingle, iring, lifer, liger, liner, reign, renig, rifle.

-4 letters: fern, file, fine, fire, firn, frig, gien, girl, girn, glen, grin, lief, lien, lier, life, line, ling, lire, liri, neif, reif, rein.

+1 letter: filtering, pilfering, prefiling, refilling, refilming.

+2 letters: fingerlike, fingerling, fingernail, flickering, flittering, florigenic, girlfriend, grainfield.

+3 letters: fertilizing, filagreeing, filigreeing, fingerlings, fingernails, fireballing, firewalling, flichtering, girlfriends, grainfields, infrangible, interfiling, overfilling, refiltering, reinflating.

+4 letters: electrifying, federalizing, flickeringly, griseofulvin, interfolding, lifeguarding, reliquefying, requalifying, terrifyingly.

+5 letters: deformalizing, desulfurizing, fiberglassing, filibustering, fortnightlies, frighteningly, griseofulvins, overinflating, prequalifying, proliferating, reclassifying, resolidifying.

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