Alternative form of life car [A watertight boat or box, travelling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore, and used to haul people through the waves.]
A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled-up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world.
Obsolete spelling of sail [To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.]
(specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
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