a fireworks-
type device used at
sea mainly as a distress
signal, as by a
ship which is sinking or in some other trouble. The rocket is up, the lifeboats are out, because everything is sinking with seacocks
wide open.
-Principles of Auditing (5 Sept. 61) a fireworks-
type device used at
sea mainly as a distress
signal, as by a
ship which is sinking or in some other trouble.