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Lifeline

noun

A crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live. Synonyms: life line, line of life.

Support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection). "She offered me a lifeline in my time of grief"

Line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver.

Line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning.

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"Lifeline" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mickey. "Didn't you hear me say there was a horse and saddle and a room for me, and a room for Lily? 'Stay there!' Why for ever and ever more! That's home! When I got into trouble and called on Peter to throw a lifeline, he did it up browner than his job for Ma. A line was all I asked; but Peter established a regular Pertectorate—nobody can 'get' ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... he grasped one of my hands and hung on with a very good imitation of a drowning man seizing a lifeline. They all laughed and Hampton Dibrell held my other hand as ardently, though not in quite such light vein. I had to rescue it to accept Clifton Gray's nosegay of huge violets from his greenhouse, and I embraced Jessie with the nosegay ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

Words linked to "Lifeline" : line of life, line, crinkle, ridge rope, wrinkle, crease, support, furrow, seam