#lifeline  line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
  supertype:  line.artifact  something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; "a washing line"
  subtype:  ridge_rope__ridgerope  either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship

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