noun. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.

noun. A life buoy.

transitive verb. To keep afloat or aloft.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To maintain at a high level; support.

transitive verb. To hearten or inspire; uplift.

transitive verb. To mark with or as if with a buoy.

noun. A float fixed at a certain place to show the position of objects beneath the water, as shoals, rocks, etc., to mark out a channel, and the like

noun. A buoyant object designed to be thrown from a vessel to assist a person who has fallen into the water to keep himself afloat; a life-buoy.

To support by a buoy or as by a buoy; keep afloat in a fluid; bear up or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air: generally with up.

Figuratively, to support or sustain in any sense; especially, to sustain mentally; keep from falling into despondency or discouragement: generally with up.

To fix buoys in as a direction to mariners: as, to buoy or to buoy off a channel.

To float; rise by reason of lightness.

noun. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.

noun. a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor.

noun. a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.

noun. See under Breeches.

noun. an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.

noun. a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped.

noun. a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.

noun. a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end.

noun. undefined

noun. to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.

noun. a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.

transitive verb. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

transitive verb. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

transitive verb. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys.

intransitive verb. To float; to rise like a buoy.

noun. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.

noun. A life-buoy.

verb. To keep afloat or aloft.

verb. To support or maintain at a high level.

verb. To mark with a buoy.

noun. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

verb. float on the surface of water

verb. keep afloat

verb. mark with a buoy

"A buoy is tossed over the rail but the captain refuses to hard down the helm and send a boat to rescue."

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bell buoy  breeches buoy  buoy up  buoyed  buoying  

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