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Definition of: breeches buoy
Naut.
A life-saving apparatus, consisting of canvas breeches, attachable at the waist to a ring-shaped lifebuoy, to be slung and run upon a rope stretched from the shore to a wrecked vessel.
A. Mast of vessel.
B. Traveling block.
C. Hawser running from mast to shore.
D. Tailblock.
E. Whip, or endless line, by which buoy is hauled to and from shore.
F. Breeches buoy.
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