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Noun

1. 1
   A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered. historical

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

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

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