What is the meaning of AFLOAT. Phrases containing AFLOAT
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Overcoat
Not moving. Uused only when a vessel is afloat and neither tied up nor anchored.
Senior Canadian Officer Present Afloat.
Intoxicated
Of a vessel which is floating freely (not aground or sunk). More generally of vessels in service ("the company has 10 ships afloat").
A popular colloquial name for a sailor (also called Jack Afloat).
A ship, abandoned by her crew, but still afloat.
A Second World War personal flotation device used to keep people afloat in the water; named after the 1930s actress Mae West, well known for her large bosom.
A method of surveying the underwater parts of a ship while it is still afloat instead of having to drydock it for examination.
I'm afloat is London Cockney rhyming slang for boat.I'm afloat is London Cockney rhyming slang for an overcoat.
Bucket afloat is old London Cockney rhyming slang for a coat.
Coat
Intoxicated
All afloat was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a coat.
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adv. & a.
Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
n.
An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
adv. & a.
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
adv. & a.
Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
n.
A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
v. t.
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
v. i.
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
adv.
On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
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