Term: breeches buoy: a life buoy in the form of a ring with short breeches for support; used to transfer people from a ship
Candidate hypernym: life buoy: a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material → 1
Candidate hypernym: duress: compulsory force or threat → 0
Candidate hypernym: batch: a collection of things or persons to be handled together → 0
Candidate hypernym: awnless bromegrass: drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: bogy: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft → 0
Candidate hypernym: laity: in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy → 0
Candidate hypernym: earthstar: any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star → 0
Candidate hypernym: homing device: the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objective → 0
Candidate hypernym: tropidoclonion: lined snakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: carpinus: mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs: hornbeams; sometimes placed in subfamily Carpinaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: visiting fireman: an important or distinguished visitor → 0