carling float

1. 1.

   a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency

   Synonymslife raft

   Broaderraft

Questions about carling float

What does carling float mean?

carling float means "a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency".

What is another word for carling float?

Close synonyms include life raft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carling float a common word?

carling float is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.