English Dictionary

life-arrow

名詞

歴史的

(historical) A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.

日本語の意味

（歴史的）マスケット銃から発射され、遭難した船に結び付けられた救命用の命綱を目的とする棒

When the brig struck a reef, the crew fired a life-arrow toward the foundering ship so they could haul a line aboard.

そのブリッグが礁に衝突したとき、乗組員は難破しつつある船へ綱付きの発射弾を撃ち、救命索を引き上げられるようにした。

意味（1）

(historical) A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.

Colonel Delvigne, of the French army, invented a life-arrow, to be fired from an ordinary musket.

life-arrows （ plural ）