rescuen.
/ˈrɛskjuː/, U.S. /ˈrɛskju/ 1.
a. The act of saving or being saved from danger or distress; the fact of being saved in this way; aid, deliverance. Also: an instance of this.air-sea, mountain, search and rescue, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun]
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savementc1330
salvationc1374
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rescuingc1405
acquittancec1430
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acquittal1619
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deliverancy1641
safety1654
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2308 (MED) No meruayle þaȝ hym myslyke Þat hoped of no rescowe.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 1953 (MED) Sir Arthure..has owterayede þi lordez That rode for þe rescowe of ȝone riche knyghttez.
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 28 (MED) At the rescue of the cite Averaunces fought by Edmonde, duke of Somerset.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 2549 (MED) Fought thei still, and reskew was ther non.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lx. 207 They can not scape..and they are without hope of any rescue.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. iii. f. 7v The rurall people abandonyng their colonies, fledde for rescue into the citie.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 19 What rescue hath the dry stubble against the advantage of fire?
1673 J. Milton Psalm VII in Poems (new ed.) 138 Least as a Lion..He hast to tear my Soul asunder Tearing and no rescue nigh.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) xviii. iv He heard me from his glorious Throne, And sent the timely Rescue down.
1774 T. Blacklock Graham ii. xxv. 29 Her rescue nobly Graham essay'd.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 352 Transported with the thought that rescue had at length arrived, Emma and Dolly shrieked aloud for help.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 127 Rescue would be out of the question, should the climber go over the edge.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 9/4 The rescue took place just in time, as the boat heeled over shortly after the men had been taken into the shore boat.
1953 Cape Times 4 July 3/1 Berg-top rescue ends in romance.
1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 25/6 A dramatic sea rescue during the early hours of July 5.
1990 Lifeboat Spring 230 (caption) The difficulties of carrying out a rescue in an onshore Force 7 wind with the whole area swept by 12ft breaking seas is only too apparent.
2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 9 Sept. 19/6 (heading) Political point-scoring is undermining the rescue and rebuilding needed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
b. The removal of a person from conditions of poverty, social distress, etc.; the support or rehabilitation of underprivileged and socially excluded people, esp. prostitutes. Cf. Compounds 1b.
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1814 5th Rep. Comm. for Relief Unparalleled Distresses in Germany 4 Societies for the rescue and relief of Orphans, and other destitute Children.
1855 Philanthropist 1 June 3/3 This institution (the object of which is to afford temporary protection to friendless young women, and to effect the rescue of fallen females).
1906 M. A. Lee Mother Lee's Experience in 15 Years' Rescue Work 106 The work to which he has called you for the rescue of the needy girls and boys of the land.
1935 Manch. Guardian 13 Sept. 13/1 There were several organisations in the country for the rescue of prostitutes.
2007 F. Kniss & P. D. Numrich Sacred Assemblies & Civic Engagem. v. 89 The core of the movement's initial ministry..is..the rescue of drug addicts, prostitutes, gang members, criminals, and other negative elements in the Hispanic community.
c. The action of rescuing a (domestic) animal from abuse, neglect, etc., typically by an animal welfare organization; (also) an organization of this type, or a shelter or sanctuary run by such an organization. Frequently with modifying word, as animal rescue, cat rescue, dog rescue, pet rescue, etc. Cf. Compounds 1d.
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1899 Boston Daily Globe 12 May 7/3 (heading) Refuge for stray canines and felines. Animal Rescue League provides means for disposing of helpless animals by easy deaths or securing homes.
1904 Harvard Advocate 7 Nov. 139/1 Think..of the good it would do to my Society for the Rescue of Stray Cats.
1967 Times 8 Dec. 6/1 (advt.) Funds..are constantly needed to keep up the work of rescue, care and education... Join the RSPCA against cruelty.
1973 Los Angeles Times 13 Aug. iv. 12/1 Proceeds will go to the organization's dog and cat rescue work.
1986 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 27 May 4 b Pet Rescue is one of the largest no-kill shelters in the Midwest and perhaps the most controversial.
1993 Dog World Oct. 48/3 California Timbra Wolfdog Rescue of America is a rescue for unwanted wolfdogs.
2001 P. Duncan Moon Women xiv. 241 Border collie rescue, they called it. They also had poodle rescue, St. Bernard rescue, cocker spaniel rescue, and every other kind of rescue in the book.
2. Law. The unlawful taking of a person out of legal custody; forcible recovery by the owner of goods which have been seized or confiscated; an instance of this. In quot. 1888: a person rescued from custody.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal removal from custody
pound-breachc1210
rescous1451
rescue1461
1461 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 43 Waryn Herman..put hym in mynde þat þe mercyment for makyng of the walle chuld be askyd ageyn and be distreynyd þer-fore. Item, I sent you be Doctore Aleyns man the rescew of Waryn Herman.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 332 (MED) If hit happun þe fore-seide sir Richard..to deliuer þe distres..or to make rescu with þreteninge, [etc.].
1497 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1497 §13. m. 6 Eny suche shire..or toune, where any persone make suche rescue of any distres to be takyn by suche collectour.
?1594 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons i. f. 4v Captaine Bartlet taken prisoner, with diuers others, and at the reskew wherof the L. Gray of Wilton that now is..was shotte through the body with a Bullet.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 57 Falst. Keepe them off Bardolfe. Offic. A reskew, a reskew. Host. Good people bring a reskew.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 112 I am thy prisoner, wilt thou suffer them to make a rescue ? View more context for this quotation
1687 Cynthia 115 They began to cry out, A Rescue, A Rescue.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. i. 17 In case the distress was taken without cause, or contrary to law..the tenant may lawfully make rescue.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 131 Rescue is the forcibly freeing another from an arrest or imprisonment.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 412/2 An indictment for a rescue must set out the circumstances under which the person, &c. was arrested, and the rescue effected.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 413/1 Upon rescue of goods distrained for rent.
1888 M. Morris Claverhouse 131 [They] marched victoriously off with such of their rescues as would go with them.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xx. 191 He found amongst them certain plans, which you or your leader meant to carry out for the rescue of the Comte de Tournay and others.
1957 R. F. V. Heuston Salmond's Law of Torts (ed. 12) vi. 288 Rescous involves the rescue of distrained goods before they reach the pound; pound-breach arises after they have been impounded.
2003 G. Walker Crime, Gender & Social Order vi. 251 In certain circumstances, such as vexatious litigation or the wrongful seizure of goods by unscrupulous bailiffs, forcible rescue could be entirely legal.
3. Bridge. = rescue bid n. (a) at Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid
ask1872
overcall1890
rescue bid1912
game-goer1913
reverse bid1915
denial1916
rebid1916
overbid?1917
rescue?1917
under-call1923
jump1927
invitation1928
score-bid1928
approach1929
pre-empt1929
one-over-one1931
response1931
cue-bid1932
psychic1932
asking bid1936
reverse1936
shut-out1936
under-bid1945
controlled psychic1959
relay bid1959
raise1964
psych1965
multi1972
splinter bid1977
?1917 E. Bergholt Royal Auction Bridge 87 It is imperative to overbid with Two Clubs, as a warning—colloquially known as a ‘rescue’.
1932 H. Phillips One Hundred Contract Bridge Hands 114 West's double is for ‘business’... North does not attempt a ‘rescue’.
1961 T. Reese Bridge (1963) x. 112 (heading) Redoubling for a rescue.
4. Virology and Molecular Biology. The restoration of the ability of a virus to replicate, esp. by coinfection with another virus; the restoration of the expression of a non-functional gene or the phenotype determined by such a gene by the addition of another gene or a substance which affects gene function Cf. rescue v. 7.
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1956 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 42 508 The rescue of markers of an ultraviolet inactivated particle in crosses with unirradiated phage.
1964 Science 19 June 1459/2 The maximum phenotypic response to 5-FU for the rescue of rII mutants occurred early during the period when synthesis of RNA is assumed to take place.
1990 T. G. Wreghitt & P. Morgan-Capner ELISA in Clin. Microbiol. Lab. viii. 123 Rescue and serotypic characterization of non-cultivable human rotavirus by gene reassortment.
2001 L. H. Pinto & J. S. Takahashi in H. R. Chin & S. O. Moldin Methods Genomic Neurosci. iv. 79 The advantage of functional rescue of a mutation lies in the demonstration that [the] unit of DNA used for rescue contains the genetic information that was altered by the mutation.
Phrases
P1. to come (also go, etc.) to the (also a person's) rescue: to provide a person, place, etc., with relief, assistance, or aid.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > afford deliverance [verb (intransitive)] > by action or intervention
to come (also go, etc.) to the (also a person's) rescuec1475
to save the situation1859
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 67 (MED) Kyng Pirrus..cam to the rescue of the cite of Tarente agaynste the Romayns.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 156 Thider preced bothe partyes to the rescowe.
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 239 The French king also inuaded Flanders, and spoyled and brent Dunkirke, before kynge Philyp could come to the rescue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. iii. 20 Spurre to the rescue of the Noble Talbot. View more context for this quotation
1684 A. Behn Voy. to Isle of Love 109 in Poems Several Occasions Love saw my Griefs, and to my rescue came.
1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 17 It was with difficulty that I hinder'd thus my Friend from going to their Rescue.
1775 T. Francklin Matilda i. 18 I forget his faults, and flee With all a lover's ardour to his rescue.
1843 Fraser's Mag. 28 715 The captain..came to our rescue.
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. i. 10 It had been his father who came to the rescue of the little Archers at the inn at Neufchâtel.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) viii. vi. 215 I was incessantly cudgeling my brains for some ‘angel’ who would come to my financial rescue.
1995 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. f1/1 If you do buy frozen meat, let the microwave come to the rescue for quick thawing.
P2. to the rescue: used as an interjection to give an order or declare an intention to rescue somebody or something. Also —— to the rescue: indicating that the person or thing specified should or will provide relief, assistance, or aid. In later use frequently humorous.
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cli. f. lxxiv/1 Whanne the frenchmen sawe them yssue and herde them cry Manny to the rescue, they knewe well they were betrayed.
1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 127 Fast to the rescue crie my friends apace, When they perceud me rauisht in this wise.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. ii. 118 Ho! to the rescue! Saint Mark and liberty!
1872 E. H. Bickersteth Two Brothers 289 On, brothers, to the rescue!
1935 Times 9 Jan. 6/3 (heading) ‘The Times’ to the rescue.
1966 J. Adams & H. Tobias Borscht Belt iv. 41 If Mrs. Rappaport complained about not getting her third portion of blueberries or Mrs. Davidoff was scrounging fruitlessly for a dancing partner..it was the Toomler to the rescue.
2006 Fashion (Canada) Feb. 60/1 I figured my problem was solved: freeze my eggs and thaw them when I was ready. Screw Mother Nature—it was Mother Science to the rescue.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
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(a) With the sense ‘used for, engaged in, or directed towards the rescue of people, property, etc.’Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately at Compounds 1a(b).
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. Contents 7 The rescue expedition, commanded by Lieut. Hartstene.
1887 N.-Y. Tribune 4 May 1/5 The people on shore formed a volunteer rescue crew.
1932 Pictorial Weekly 19 Mar. 201/1 Rescue vessels can ‘plug in’ to this buoy, and talk to the men below.
1958 Times 1 Oct. 4/5 (advt.) The skill, experience and ingenuity that created the air-sea rescue beacon sarah.
1979 Maclean's 9 Apr. 16/3 An inadequately equipped coast guard..has been beefed up..to a total rescue flotilla of 20, but bad feelings linger.
1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 240 A rescue chopper had found the others—one with an inguinal hernia and one with a broken ankle.
2003 Daily Dispatch (East London, S. Afr.) 18 July 7/5 Rescue personnel were using the jaws of life to remove the badly mutilated body from the Toyota.
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rescue appliance n.
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1898 Engin. Mag. 16 154/2 New Rescue-Appliances and Their Use in Mines.
1932 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 28 Jan. 1/2 Every available rescue appliance and piece of diving apparatus that might be of service was rushed to the scene.
2008 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 3 Sept. 2 The bike went up in flames and two fire engines and a rescue appliance from Stroud attended.
rescue attempt n.
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1856 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Courier 16 July 3/3 The same person, we suppose, that figured in the Anthony Burns rescue attempt at Boston.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 23 Mar. 12/1 Rescue attempts were led by volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue.., a national network of people trained in helping stranded marine mammals, which is now more than 2,000 strong.
rescue bell n.
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1939 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 23 May 1/7 Hope that most of the men trapped in the Squalus are in good condition spurred emergency navy workers in lowering the rescue bell from the submarine rescue ship.
1960 W. O. Shelford Subsunk vii. 80 Squalus sank in an area where there were no appreciable tides to delay the divers or the functioning of the rescue bell.
1998 A. Bolino From Depression to War vii. 194 The following day, deep-sea divers arrived from Washington, bringing with them an experimental rescue bell from Groton, Connecticut.
rescue boat n.
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1848 Caledonian Mercury 10 Jan. 3/4 At the same instant almost that the rescue-boat left the streamer, a frightful scream from the sufferers..told that they had sunk.
1886 Times 5 Nov. 12/1 A rescue boat's crew were upset and six men were drowned.
1978 Lochaber News 31 Mar. 4/6 At the same time the rescue boat from Dochgorroch sped to the scene.
1998 Boards May 106/1 So long as the rescue boat is still on duty, there is an anti-hypothermic service here included in your entry fee.
rescue capsule n.
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1963 Times 28 Oct. 10/5 It is hoped to bring the survivors through this [shaft] to the surface by means of a rescue capsule..—a device used successfully in the recent Pennsylvania mine rescue.
1977 Sunday Times 24 Apr. 1/5 We just dropped everything we had in our hands and ran to the rescue capsules, which were closed and lowered down to the sea.
2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 28 July 12 Rescue units at the Que Creek coal mine in Pennsylvania were preparing to lower a rescue capsule into the flooded shaft.
rescue car n.
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1906 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 22 Jan. 1/4 Cars not equipped with the sleet wheels could not run, and in some cases it was necessary to send out rescue cars to tow in the disabled or powerless ones.
1961 Times 30 Aug. 8/1 Engineers..sent out a ‘rescue car’ from the terminus and gingerly dragged in the three stranded cars.
1990 J. Whiteside Regulating Danger vii. 144 By 1916 the company had equipped and stationed a rescue car at Rock Springs and set up safety committees at each of its mines.
rescue centre n.
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1912 Times 30 Aug. 5/7 Between 1,000 and 2,000 persons are still being cared for in the rescue centres.
1965 Pop. Sci. Sept. 88/2 AMVER determines which ship is in the best position for a fast rendezvous, and passes the facts on to the Rescue Center, which asks the ship to volunteer medical aid.
2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vi. 207/2 A wonderful collection of exotic, unusual and interesting creatures brought in from rescue centres, the RSPCA, other zoos or pet shops.
rescue company n.
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1856 Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) 2 July 2/3 Fireman's Parade!..2d. Rescue Company No. 1.
1975 Irish Times 30 May 14/8 Foir Teoranta, the State rescue company, has exercised its right to appoint its nominee.
2004 9/11 Comm. Rep. (National Comm. Terrorist Attacks U.S.) ix. 282 The [fire] department's five rescue companies and seven squad companies performed specialized and highly risky rescue operations.
rescue coordinator n.
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1945 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 7 Aug. 8/3 ‘Their morale has been 100 per cent better the last two months,’ declared Lt. Cmdr. James Parker, Wenham, Mass., rescue coordinator on Iwo.
1973 G. Moffat Lady with Cool Eye vi. 70 As rescue co-ordinator..shouldn't you know who's operating in your area?
2006 R. Marshall Rough Weather Seamanship xi. 281/1 Only the rescue coordinator, such as the US Coast Guard center in Boston, can call on a ship to help.
rescue cradle n.
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1910 Gazette (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) 20 Apr. But once she puts it down in the rescue cradle and goes out the ever open door the baby belongs to her no longer; she may never see or hear of it again.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. i. 1/1 The fishermen fastened the rope to a bollard and fitted a rescue cradle to run along the rope to the comparative safety of the rocks.
2004 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 19 July (Metro section) 1 They tossed her a life preserver and hoisted her out of the water in a rescue cradle.
rescue craft n.
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1898 San Francisco Chron. 6 June 10/1 The rescue craft rowed out to the spot where the body disappeared.
1920 Times 3 Mar. 15/5 It was early decided to keep the boats in touch with the Bohemian and await the rescue craft from Halifax.
2000 Sportsboat & Waterski Internat. No. 5. 53 Traditionally, RIBs were associated with safety and/or rescue craft alone.
rescue dinghy n.
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1943 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 5 Aug. 4/2 (caption) In lower photo a pilot is seen afloat in a rescue dinghy.
1972 Police Rev. 10 Nov. 1444/1 Fluorescent pigments..put to good practical effect in painting rescue dinghies.
2005 D. J. Shayler & I. Moule Women in Space 51 If the cosmonaut landed in water, the suit had thermal support for twelve hours in water or three days in a rescue dinghy.
rescue operation n.
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1889 Times 7 Sept. 9/5 Telegrams were sent to Glasgow for a number of experienced engineers who might direct the rescue operations.
1955 M. E. B. Banks Commando Climber v. 83 We..moved on carefully, realising that, despite Prussik slings, rescue operations are extremely difficult.
1993 I. Okpewho Tides (1994) 181 The only thing of consequence that was reported then was the Lugard Bridge incident and the rescue operations that were underway.
rescue party n.
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1821 Monthly Mag. Apr. 189/1 Six [prisoners] were sentenced to be transported for life..and 44 to be imprisoned for various terms, including the 3 remaining of the rescue party.
1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 17 Local authorities were advised to organise rescue parties of six or eight men each for action after air attack.
2001 P. J. G. Ransom Snow, Flood & Tempest ii. 23 When a rescue party arrived on foot two hours after dawn the only way to get the food that they had brought to the passengers was by opening the lamp-holes in the carriage roofs.
rescue service n. (frequently in plural)
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1838 Mechanics' Mag. 6 Oct. 4/1 (heading) Fire engineering—rescue service.
1941 Flight 39 361/1 The various rescue services..have been co-ordinated under one central control known as the Directorate of Air/Sea Rescue Services.
1990 Lifeboat (RNLI) Summer (verso front cover) (advt.) When rescue services are called out in extremely rough weather conditions, confidence is assured when supported by a lifeboat that's tough & reliable.
rescue squad n.
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1903 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 26 July 5/5 Then the rescue squad of six started out.
1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 176 He headed the Rescue Squad, saw the German shepherd dogs drawn up, the blazing torches.
1996 A. Jones All she Wanted iii. xxxii. 157 When Tom was found lying on the floor of his trailer, a rescue squad was called, and he was airlifted to Memphis.
rescue station n.
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1868 J. D. McCabe Secrets Great City lvi. 448 In order to guard against this, and to afford timely assistance to persons in danger of drowning, ‘rescue stations’ have been established along the water front of the city.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 7/2 A well-equipped rescue-station and experimental gallery, established by the leading Lancashire coalowners, was opened to-day.
1993 T. Clancy Without Remorse (1994) ii. 35 The island converted to a rescue station, from which a crashboat might respond to an aircraft accident.
rescue team n.
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1895 Evening Bull. (Decatur, Illinois) 24 July 4/1 In his speech yesterday Hon C A Ewing paid a glowing tribute to the Volunteer Firemen of the state and the old Rescue team of this city that had a fame world wide.
1973 Guardian 13 Apr. 24/5 At 11.29, the rescue teams were alerted.
2002 M. Sipper Machine Nature iv. 86 They will be able to locate survivors and communicate their positions to the rescue team outside.
rescue tube n.
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1949 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 11 Apr. 1/1 (caption) Dr. Robert McCullock clambers up the side of the rescue tube, minutes after he sent up word from 95 feet below that tiny Kathy was dead.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. i. 3/2 The two lifesavers on the helicopter, Mr. M. Lawson and Mr. T. Radonich, jumped into the water with a rescue tube, which was used to fly Mr. Stewart back home.
2007 M. Balwyn Austral. Woman's Survival Guide 142 In an ideal situation you will have a rescue tube grabbed from the beach or some kind of flotation device that you can push towards the person.
rescue vehicle n.
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1913 Evening Standard (Ogden City, Utah) 27 Mar. 1/1 (heading) Flat car is a rescue vehicle.
1938 Times 22 Mar. 11/2 Five rescue vehicles, adapted as fire fighters, gave a demonstration in decontamination work.
2003 Pop. Sci. Dec. 130/1 (caption) The vertical takeoff-and-landing XV-5A Vertifan, here proposed as a rescue vehicle for pilots downed in Vietnam, never saw service.
b. With the sense ‘directed towards or having as an aim the support or rehabilitation of underprivileged and socially excluded people, esp. prostitutes’, as rescue home, rescue shelter, rescue society, etc. See also rescue mission n. (a) at Compounds 2, rescue work n., rescue worker n. at Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for reformed prostitutes
Maudlin house1595
maudlin1603
maudlin hospital1680
Magdalene charity1758
Magdalene house1758
Magdalene hospital1759
Magdalene1766
Magdalene Society1800
penitentiary1806
Magdalene asylum1818
rescue home1855
Magdalene home1901
Magdalene ward1904
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective] > aimed at raising degraded women
rescue1855
1855 Times 23 Jan. 4/6 Subscriptions will be received by the Secretaries, the Treasurers, by the Matron of the Refuge; and by Mr. D. Cooper, Secretary to Rescue Society.
1869 (title) Licensing prostitution; reprinted (with permission) from the Report for 1869 of the Rescue Society, London.
1889 L. Ridding Woman's League 12 An Industrial Training Home, Temperance Work, a Rescue Shelter..these various efforts are inspired by the starting of the League.
1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. i. vi. 51 The records of our Rescue Homes abound with life-stories..which prove..the existence of numbers of innocent victims.
1894 Daily News 13 Sept. 2/6 Offshoots of the first rescue home have been planted in many directions.
1927 E. C. Trenholme Rescue Work iii. 21 It was through this venture failing that one of them came into a rescue home.
1981 C. Scott Heavenly Witch ix. 136 At Nîmes the first rescue home was opened, the start of a chain of rescue homes.
1981 F. K. Prochaska Women & Philanthropy vi. 188 The dramatic growth in rescue societies and Magdalene homes.
1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 389 The governor could commute a sentence of imprisonment against any woman to compulsory residence in any rescue home for any period not exceeding the unexpired period of such sentence.
2006 L. Murdoch Imagined Orphans vi. 146 The typical late-Victorian charity for unwed mothers sent the mother first to a rescue home and then to service, while placing the child in foster care.
c. Archaeology. With the sense ‘of, relating to, or engaged in the emergency excavation of archaeological sites threatened by imminent building or road development’, as rescue archaeologist, rescue archaeology, rescue dig, rescue excavation, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > types or branches of archaeology
prehistoric archaeology1865
ethnoarchaeology1879
archaeozoology1884
pot-hunting1893
rescue archaeology1946
archaeobotany1954
archaeomagnetism1958
archaeometry1958
astro-archaeology1965
salvage archaeology1967
zooarchaeology1967
archaeoastronomy1968
bioarchaeology1972
salvage excavation1972
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > types or branches of archaeology > student of or one who practices
pot-hunter1897
rescue archaeologist1946
processualist1949
zooarchaeologist1957
archaeometrist1964
archaeoastronomer1973
astro-archaeologist1974
1946 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. ii. 67 On rescue-work sites, where the archaeological material is in any case eventually to be destroyed, the question of restoration does not arise.
1957 G. Clark Archaeol. & Society (ed. 3) ii. 57 Rescue-excavations, organized in Britain by the Ministry of Works, when known ancient monuments had to be flattened.
1962 Daily Tel. 9 July 10/2 ‘Rescue digs’ of this kind have now become one of the principal antiquarian activities of the Ministry of Works.
1972 Rescue News Autumn 1/1 For some years rescue archaeologists have been worried that the finds from the increasing number of emergency excavations are not receiving proper treatment.
1978 Sci. Amer. Jan. 111 An international campaign of rescue archaeology at the ruined city.
1989 Young Archaeol. Apr. 4/2 Archaeologists often have to..demolish buildings ahead of a rescue dig in town.
1991 Antiquity 65 822/1 Rescue excavations can generate very large quantities of data.
2006 P. Bogucki in L. R. Lozny Landscapes under Pressure viii. 135 Field research on early European farmers has long been driven by rescue archaeology, and many major advances have arisen directly from the excavation of sites threatened by modern activity.
d. With the sense ‘designating a domestic animal that has been rescued from abuse or neglect, typically by an animal welfare organization’, as rescue cat, rescue horse, etc. Cf. sense 1c.Recorded earliest in rescue dog n. (b) at Compounds 2.
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1980 P. G. Burnham Playtraining Your Dog i. 25 If you are involved in dog rescue work, a rescue dog can be made much more suitable for adoption after two months of letting you practice on him in the Novice class.
1993 C. Jankowski Adopting Cats & Kittens i. 6 [Her] garage typically houses ten to fifteen rescue cats.
1998 Boston Globe (Nexis) 29 Nov. (Northwest Weekly section) 17 With costs about $250 a month to care for one rescue horse, we can't afford to rescue more until we get more leases or boarders.
2003 J. Rollins Ice Hunt (2004) 72 They were all strays or rescue animals, a motley bunch of Lab mixes, malamutes, and shepherd crosses.
2007 J. R. Wise Give Horse Second Chance i. 4 Rescue horses deserve a second chance, and horse lovers have the satisfaction of knowing they can save a horse's life by providing a good home.
2009 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 Feb. (Pets section) 90 Golden retriever Buddy, 4, puts up with newly adopted rescue kitten Missy jumping on him while he takes his nap.
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rescue bid n. (a) Bridge a bid intended to get one's partner out of a contract which cannot be made; (b) gen. an attempt to rescue someone or something.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid
ask1872
overcall1890
rescue bid1912
game-goer1913
reverse bid1915
denial1916
rebid1916
overbid?1917
rescue?1917
under-call1923
jump1927
invitation1928
score-bid1928
approach1929
pre-empt1929
one-over-one1931
response1931
cue-bid1932
psychic1932
asking bid1936
reverse1936
shut-out1936
under-bid1945
controlled psychic1959
relay bid1959
raise1964
psych1965
multi1972
splinter bid1977
1912 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune Nov. 7/7 I sit and wonder how I can possibly write in terms that are strong enough to impress upon players the futility of all ‘rescue’ bids.
1931 Manch. Guardian 18 Aug. 9/3 (heading) Rescue bid in heavy seas.
1973 Times 10 Nov. 10/5 He had been invited to partner a beginner who had no suspicion of the dangers..from uninvited rescue bids.
2008 Irish News (Nexis) 18 Dec. 38 The remaining hopes of a rescue bid for high street icon Woolworths were extinguished yesterday.
rescue breathing n. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > artificial respiration > mouth-to-mouth or nose
rescue breathing1958
kiss of life1961
mouth-to-mouth1962
mouth-to-nose1962
1958 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 20 July b1/1 It would be in order to post the rules for Mouth-to-mouth Rescue Breathing near the pool, but at any rate, do learn them.
1999 J. Piven & D. Borgenicht Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbk. i. 40 Check the pulse and begin rescue breathing and CPR if necessary.
rescue circle n. Spiritualism a seance held to contact a person who has died but whose spirit is not yet thought to have passed over into the spirit world.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > seance > types of
trumpet seance1912
rescue circle1921
proxy sitting1933
1921 A. Conan Doyle Wanderings of Spiritualist iv. 93 He has run a rescue circle for the instruction of the lower spirits who are so material that they can be reached more easily by humanity than by the higher angels.
2006 P. R. Heath & J. Klimo Suicide 139 It is thought that rescue circles by living mediums may be required to help some souls successfully leave the lower astral.
rescue dog n. (a) a dog trained to aid in rescue operations; (b) a dog that has been rescued from abuse, neglect, etc. (cf. Compounds 1d).
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1901 Strand Mag. Dec. 716/1 A great St Bernard, the most celebrated of all the rescue dogs that have worked in the hospice on Mount Bernard.
1980Rescue dog [see Compounds 1d]. 1992 1001 Images of Dogs ii. 32 In addition to being an excellent working sheepdog it [sc. the Appenzell, or Alpine Shepherd Dog] is also used as a ski patrol dog, security dog and rescue dog.
2003 J. Katz New Work of Dogs i. 9 It seems that every other dog here is a rescue dog, ‘probably abused’, their owners often say.
rescue drug n. (a) a rescue medication; (b) a drug given to counter the effects of another drug, esp. in cancer chemotherapy.
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1976 Rheumatol. & Rehabilit. Suppl. 37 A series of 26 patients with ankylosing spondylitis have been included in a double-blind crossover comparison of ketoprofen 200 mg daily and phenybutazone 300 mg daily..with paracetamol as a ‘rescue drug’.
1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 6614/1 Thiourea has also shown promise as a rescue drug in mice.
1999 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. f5 (table) People with chronic asthma..need two types of medication: a drug that quells inflammation such as a corticosteroid, and a ‘rescue’ drug to open constricted airways and make breathing easier when attacks do occur.
2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Aug. d3/1 Among its recommendations: that so-called rescue drugs to reverse the effects of sedatives be kept in the operating room.
rescue fantasy n. [after German Rettungsphantasie ( S. Freud in Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen (1910) 2 396)] originally Psychoanalysis a subconscious belief or fantasy centring on rescue, esp. a belief that one is needed or able to save another person from something, posited as a motive for certain actions or choices.
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1918 Psychoanalytic Rev. 5 109 The son shows his gratitude by wishing to have a son through his mother who is like himself; in other words, in the rescue fantasy he identifies himself with the father.
1946 E. Bergler Unhappy Marriage & Divorce vi. 144 The fourth qualification to which their love is subject is the ‘rescue-fantasy’. They must be convinced that the woman needs them, and without them would lose all moral support and very likely sink into a deplorable state.
2008 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Nov. 46 We have this rescue fantasy about abused children but many have no idea they need to be saved.
rescue finance n. = rescue financing n.
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1971 Dáil Éireann: Parl. Deb. 256 2229 I was shocked to learn that over the last couple of years the demand for rescue finance has become all important.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 6 An extension of the moratorium available to small companies against creditor action,..making it easier for small concerns to access rescue finance.
rescue financing n. the provision of an investment or loan to a business in difficulty; funds provided in this way.
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1939 H. Spero Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loans to Railroads 134 They thought it wise not to shift the entire burden of rescue financing to the Corporation.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 May b2/4 The company has sought out pricey ‘rescue financing’ from private-equity funds and other lenders.
rescue man n. a person trained in rescue work; (Mining) a member of a team trained for underground rescue work; cf. draegerman n.
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1893 Glasgow Herald 15 Aug. 6/4 Malloch, the rescue man, lost no time in getting him out of the water.
1908 Times 7 May 11/1 There were two other rescue men in the pit, but they had taken another direction.
1990 A. Boyle Ayrshire Heritage (BNC) 24 It was decided that a chain of rescue men would pass the trapped miners from one to the other through Bank Mine.
rescue medication n. medication used to treat an acute episode of pain or exacerbation of a chronic condition such as migraine or asthma; a particular drug used for this purpose (cf. rescue drug n. (a)).
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1984 Pain 18 Suppl. No. 1. S21 Any patient who did not obtain adequate pain relief after one hour post drug would be given a ‘rescue’ medication of meperidine.
2000 Treehouse Canad. Family Oct.–Nov. 45/2 Rescue or reliever medication, which includes short-acting bronchodilators, is taken during an acute asthma attack to open up the spastic airways and ease the child's distressed breathing.
2006 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 11/1 In trials patients given Grazax reported a 30 per cent reduction in symptoms and a 40 per cent fall in the need for rescue medication.
rescue mission n. (a) originally U.S. a mission established by a religious group to help the underprivileged, etc.; (b) a military or other mission undertaken with the aim of rescuing a captured or stranded person.
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rescue mission1879
1879 Chicago Tribune 6 Apr. 10/6 There will be services at 3 p.m. to-day and every evening during the week at Rescue Mission, No. 81 South Canal street, near Madison.
1885 Birmingham Daily Post 8 May 8/4 Colonel Day..had been able to establish in Reading a rescue mission and home for girls.
1912 P. I. Roberts Dry Dock of Thousand Wrecks vi. 93 He has displayed all along the earmarks of a rescue mission worker.
1914 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 1/2 (headline) Coudert on a rescue mission... Coudert left tonight with a special train..to rescue eighty Paris children in a school on the frontier.
1970 J. Blish Spock must Die! x. 77 He's not to undertake any quixotic rescue missions.
2006 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 19/4 A cynic might think the British Government, desperate for good news in Iraq, paid a ransom for the release of the hostages and then spun it as a heroic rescue mission.
rescue opera n. [after German Rettungsoper (1913 or earlier)] an opera at the end of which the hero or heroine is rescued from imprisonment, natural catastrophe, etc., by some heroic action.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > opera > [noun] > type of
comic opera1706
grand opera1720
operetta1741
opera comique1742
burletta1748
opera buffa1783
mezzo carattere1806
opera seria1808
light opera1813
tragédie lyrique1823
opera semiseria1825
opera bouffe1842
operette1871
rescue opera1943
Peking opera1953
monodrama1954
opera magica1956
pop opera1964
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1943 A. Loewenberg Ann. Opera 1597–1940 280 Dalayrac: Léhéman ou La Tour de Newstadt... More successful in Germany where it was one of the favourite ‘rescue operas’ of that period.
1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music 1558/2 The first Revolutionary rescue opera was Berton's Les Rigueurs du Cloître.
2006 D. L. Hoeveler in D. L. Hoeveler & J. Cass Interrogating Orientalism ii. 54 Mozart's opera was tremendously popular upon its premiere, and its tropes of capture and escape were, of course, repeated in such gothic rescue operas as Cherubini's Lodoiska.
rescue package n. a package (literal and figurative) providing aid or assistance to someone in danger or need; (now chiefly) Finance a set of financial measures intended to alleviate economic difficulties.
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1947 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 Nov. 8/3 By the time an Army C-47 dropped a rescue package I was exhausted and didn't have the energy to go after it.
1964 Times 27 Nov. 17/4 Foreign Exchange Traders observed the Thanksgiving Holiday today, confident that the 11-nation, $3,000m. rescue package would solve the problems of the pound, at least for the near future.
2008 Guardian 9 Sept. 9/1 As a result of Hank Paulson's rescue package at the weekend the importance of Fannie and Freddie..became glaringly apparent.
rescue race n. a race in which an item must be rescued or retrieved in order to win.
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1897 Daily News 6 July 5/3 There were rescue races, more diving,..and water polo.
1950 Post-Register (Idaho Falls, Idaho) 14 Sept. 8/7 Novelty events will also be held, including an egg race, musical chairs, rescue race and tire race.
1990 S. Johnson Flying Lessons vi. 40 Later, of course, he would go to win every rescue race at army training camp, scooping up the dummy man weighing 70 lbs with one arm.
rescue remedy n. (a) (also with capital initials) (a proprietary name for) a homeopathic remedy intended to alleviate anxiety, stress, etc.; (b) a quick solution to a problem.
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1901 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 10 July 2/6 (advt.) Take Dr Grady's Rescue Remedy before the disease gets a firm hold.
1986 M. Stott Spilling Beans 108 Best known is ‘Rescue Remedy’ for shocks and upsets of all kinds.
1994 Face Oct. 49/1 The usual rescue remedy for American celebrities is the confessional: some expression of regret, followed by the public airing of a hitherto private problem.
2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. (Culture section) 64 She turns clown again here as her use of chardonnay as a rescue remedy gets out of control.
rescue ship n. Navy a ship used in rescue; spec. a merchant vessel carrying blankets, medical supplies, etc., used to accompany a convoy during the Second World War (1939–45).
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1852 S. Sidney Three Colonies Austral. v. 59 Lieutenant Flinders, after hearing that the rescue-ships were in sight, ‘calmly continued his calculations on lunar observations until they came to anchor’.
1912 Times 17 Apr. 9/7 Operators sat at their instruments throughout the night endeavouring to catch the flash of the rescue ship.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Aug. 17/2 Officials of the Cambridge Shipbuilders, Inc., today pushed plans for eight more rescue ships to be built for the quartermaster.
1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy iii. 281/1 One such convoy..comprised thirty-five merchantmen, three rescue ships.
2001 J. F. Turner Fight for Sea xi. 79 The rescue ship attached to this convoy was the Melrose Abbey.
rescue shot n. (a) a gunshot fired in an attempt at rescue; (b) (originally Scottish) a ransom (now historical).
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1786 Authentic Acct. Trials G. R. Fitzgerald & Others 100 Mr. Fitzgerald appointed a place to shoot Mc Donnell and the other prisoners when the rescue shot, as Mr. Fitzgerald called it, should be fired.
a1802 Jamie Telfer xlix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 8/2 He has paid the rescue-shot, Baith wi gowd and white monie.
1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches iv. 35 Prisoners o' war maun pay the rescue shot.
1951 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 31 13 Owners of recaptured branded animals ordinarily paid a ‘rescue shot’ of two pesos a head.
rescue work n. (a) the support or rehabilitation of underprivileged and socially excluded people, esp. prostitutes; (b) work undertaken in the attempt to rescue stranded or endangered people.
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rescue work1877
1877 Birmingham Daily Post 20 Apr. 5/1 The association would be able to show good reports of rescue work done.
1884 H. Brown Is it Nothing to You? iv. 87 The objects of this society are to promote—(1) Purity among men. (2) A chivalrous respect for womanhood. (3) The preservation of the young from contamination. (4) Rescue work.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 7/2 To go through..resuscitation drill, in addition to rescue work in the water.
1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma Pref. p. lxxvi The morbid interest in misery and vice which turns some others to philanthropy and ‘rescue work’.
1962 D. Lessing Golden Notebk. iii. 402 The pleasure of recognition, of a bit of rescue-work, so to speak, rescuing the formless into form.
1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 3/3 He took his vessel two miles out to watch the drama unfold and the rescue work of the helicopter and lifeboat crews.
rescue worker n. a person who is employed or engaged in rescue work.
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rescue worker1885
1885 Times 8 Oct. 10/1 It should be remembered that rescue workers must be very chary of calling upon the aid of the State to assist them.
1898 Times 16 Dec. 7/6 During the year 218 women and girls have been dealt with by our lady rescue worker.
1930 G. B. Shaw Wks. VII. 180 The only logical conclusion apparent is that the White Slave traffickers are in complete control of our picture theatres, and can close them to our Rescue workers as effectively as they can reserve them for advertisements of their own trade.
1970 Times 26 Feb. 4/6 Rescue workers today delved with probing rods into a mass of snow.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 May a5/1 When rescue workers arrived, the man's heart had stopped beating and he had quit breathing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rescuev.
/ˈrɛskjuː/, U.S. /ˈrɛskju/ 1. † b. transitive. To defend (a town, castle, etc.) from attack; spec. to liberate (a town, etc.) from a siege. Also: to raise (a siege). Obsolete.† c. transitive. To take (booty, plunder) as spoils of battle. Obsolete.Frequently with prey as object. See prey n. 3a.
a. transitive. To set free (a hostage, a person captured by an enemy); to deliver (a person) from the attack of, or out of the hands of, enemies. Also: †to save (a person) from attack, etc., on a battlefield (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)]
areddec885
leeseOE
reddOE
winc1220
deliver?c1225
ridc1225
quita1250
betellc1275
casta1300
to cast outa1300
liverc1330
rescuec1330
wrechec1330
borrowc1350
to put out of ——c1350
to bring awaya1400
redea1400
wreakc1400
rescourec1425
rescousa1450
savec1480
relue1483
salue1484
redeem1488
recovera1500
redressa1500
eschewc1500
rescours1511
to pull (also snatch) out of the fire1526
recourse1533
withtakec1540
redeem1549
vindicate1568
retire1578
repair1591
reprieve1605
to bring off1609
the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)] > from assailants or enemies
rescuec1330
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 2031 Wiþ þat com his folk prikeinde, & her lord rescuweþ þere.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5107 Tirries felawes ben..y-nome. Ac Tirri..His feren..rescoud as a gode kniȝt.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1226 Þe ȝong kene kniȝtes..rescuede him rediliche for rinkes þat him ladden.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 5609 (MED) The Troyens ben spilt..But doughti Ector hem rescowe.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 4002 Prove we thys toun to wynne, Rescue thys folk that be withinne.
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 132 (MED) He rescowed and saued xxxiij knyghtes in bataille.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2701 Sir gawan thar reskewit he of fors, Magre his fois, and haith hyme set one horss.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. vii. 153 Of þe remanent plegeis be hir reskewit he tuke litill force.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxc She made hym capitain of Alnewike Castle, whiche he with his freshe men kept till thei wer rescowed.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 115 The ciuick coronets..presented vnto such as had rescued a Romane citizen, and saued his life.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1643 80/2 He took..many Horse and Arms, and rescued all their Prisoners.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 298 I wish'd..that I had any way to have come undiscover'd within shot of them, that I might have rescu'd the three Men.
1799 A. Plumptre Virgin of Sun v. vi. 94 You, whose son I rescued from the enemy's hands, even at the moment when the lance was pointed against his breast?
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. i. 12 How thou wilt rescue her afterwards from the clutches of Bois-Guilbert seems considerably more doubtful.
1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good iii. 95 You were sent out here to rescue my daughter from these dreadful brigands.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 163 Here the seeker is at almost greater disadvantage than in ‘Buzz Off’, for a hider can rescue a prisoner merely by getting in sight of the den.
2003 D. Piszkiewicz Terrorism's War with Amer. v. 40 The army's Delta Force would do the dirty work of going into Tehran, [and] rescuing the hostages from their captors at the embassy.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > besiege or blockade [verb (transitive)] > abandon (siege) > free from siege
rescuea1382
relievea1586
disassiege1629
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 2 Kings xxiii. 12 He stood in þe myddel of þe feeld & rescowede yt [L. tuitus est eum], & he smoot þe philisteis.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 275 (MED) To þe Baliol suld þei send, þer castelle to rescue.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 264 (MED) Princis..thoruh ther cheualrie Reskewed seeges.
?c1475 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 584 (MED) A castel..myghte be hastelie rescowed ayene be the said puissaunce.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccl. 320 The duke of gloucestre wente ouer the see to Caleys for to rescue the toune.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 67 Gif our fayis assay To reskew strewillyng.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. liiij After he recouereth Wirciburge and reskeweth the castel beseged.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 115 To pas with him to the castell of Abircorne and thair to reskew the samyn or ellis to gif the king battell.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. viii. 2 Rescu'd is Orleance from the English. View more context for this quotation
1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage xi. 123 Notwithstanding that the King of France having assembled all his Puissance, sought to rescue it, the Town was yielded.
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c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 341 (MED) Sir godfraye..rode oute full ryally to rescowe the praye.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 593 Wermen..wschit furth the pray for to reskew.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 586 (MED) Thei were come oute to hem to bateile for to rescowe the pray [Fr. por la proie rescoure].
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 3391 [He] gart warne all mankynd... To pas with him for to reskew that pray.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D5v But th'Elfin knight,..Him rencountring fierce, reskewd the noble pray.
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands i. 42 Following Cont Thierry as far as Heymensbergh, to rescue the prey; where there was a sharp incounter.
1696 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. v. 300 Having taken a great Booty, they endeavoured to carry it..toward their Ships; But the King's Forces prevented them..and rescued the Prey.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace ii. iii. 233 The Park they range, great Booty drive away, The War Men issued, to rescue the Prey.
1758 J. Macpherson Highlander iii. 34 All day they drove our cattle to the sea, I went at midnight, and rescu'd the prey.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 250 The cattle were in the act of being driven off, when Butler..rescued the creagh.
2.
a. transitive. To deliver (a person) from evil, trouble, or harm, esp. to save (a person) from a dangerous or distressing situation.
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 667 As he al one alle othre myhte Rescoue with his holy bede.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 5198 Him fro dede [a1450 Lamb. for deþ] I may rescue; He es myn eme, I his neueue.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 433 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 108 To ye dowglass yat senȝe was send..all scotland fra scaith to reskewe.
a1553 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 94 Venus to come in with a Maske of ladies and to reskue Cupide from the Marshall.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xiii. 42 Gif ȝe knew my mynd as it is plicht, Ȝe wald..me reskew.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xii. 61 Whether ye meane to reskew the pacient, from the headache.
1615 R. Cleaver Briefe Explan. Prov. 175 No might..can rescue him out of the hand of the graue.
1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 52 They saw a man drownding, and she made her boat make up to rescue him.
1718 Free-thinker No. 65. 2 It..is sufficient to rescue Mankind from Tyranny and Oppression.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. iv. 333 Jones was no less occupied in rescuing Partridge from the Fury of Susan. View more context for this quotation
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 9 The traders of Birmingham have rescued themselves.
1802 Ann. Congr. (U.S.) (1851) 15 Dec. 250 Numbers of them, discharged in foreign parts, have been thrown on the hands of our Consuls, who, to rescue them from the dangers into which their distresses might plunge them..have found it necessary..to return them at the public charge.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 50 Some accident might interpose To rescue him from what is now most sure.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 99 England was rescued from this chaos of misrule by the efforts of the Church.
1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet vi. 111 We might rescue a traveller buried in the snow.
1959 W. Golding Free Fall (1961) xi. 223 I wanted to rescue her from something violent.
1990 Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.) 16 Aug. a2/2 The harbormaster rescued two scuba divers who were screaming for help offshore near the Pilgrim power plant.
b. transitive. To retrieve (an object); to keep from being from being lost, abandoned, or damaged; to salvage (a thing). Also in extended use.
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a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 857 Whan a chaumber a-fyr is..More nede is it sodeynly rescowe Than to dispute..How þis candele in þe straw is falle.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 3536 (MED) Þei in haste his hors to reskewe Bene attonys fallen on Achille, And..Þei han from him berafte it.
1443 in E. M. Carus-Wilson Overseas Trade Bristol in Later Middle Ages (1937) 76 (MED) John fflemmyng..reskewed þe seid ship of ffaro..and also fonde þerin lx men portingalers by a day and a nyght.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 254 (MED) Open errour maketh folkes blynde, Þat beten bras þe mone to rescowen.
1548 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 265 I dowbtyd they..should have rescewyd ther shipps.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 20654 Fergus..tuke greit travell and pane For to reskew his heretage agane.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 29 Which set accidentally on fire, Lucius Metellus..did rescue with the loss of his eyes.
1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David cxiii. 9 To rescue their exspiring Fame.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Christian Life (1712) 79 Nothing being more needful than to rescue the words of our blessed Saviour from those false Glosses.
1754 Connoisseur No. 42. ⁋7 To rescue our Native Language..is a task worthy those who are accounted Ornaments of our Seats of Learning.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. ix. 164 I did step into the cellarage to see what might be rescued there.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 16 The papyrus fragments rescued from the ruins of Herculaneum.
1915 Amer. Math. Monthly 22 220 It is highly fitting that his rule for the circular parts should be rescued from the heap of mnemotechnics.
1976 Star (Sheffield) 29 Oct. 28/4 Spencer, whose two-goal salvo rescued a point for the Millers against Portsmouth in mid-week, made over 70 first team appearances for the Imps before moving to Millmoor on a free.
1997 S. Winton in A. Reid & B. D. Osborne Discovering Sc. Writers 74 He has, with some justice, been criticised for bowdlerising and altering the texts of these poems and songs but he performed a vital service in rescuing Scotland's forgotten literary legacy.
3. transitive (chiefly reflexive). To keep or excuse (oneself) from doing something; to preserve (oneself) from something. Also: †to hinder or prevent (a good deed) (obsolete).
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 96 (MED) The knihtli David him ne mihte Rescoue, that he with the sihte Of Bersabee ne was bestad.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 8760 Þis Bretons..þe karole of þe stones beheld..How þei were raised þei had wondere & how þei suld be brouht o sondere; with þat worde þei þam rescued, þei ne wist how þei suld remued.
a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 17 (MED) Whanne ye thenke on any good deede, dothe it anone leste it be lette or rescowed by any wille of the contrary.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) 91 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 83 That in no wyse I couthe my selfe rescow, But nede I must cum In and se þe fest.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 71 Men at the firste were faine to rescue them selues in iourneying, by setting thereon.
1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 27 That he appealed from the high Priest, reskuing himselfe from his iudgement,..is euident.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Nightingale in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 64 (note) The Author makes this remark, to rescue himself from the charge of having alluded with levity to a line in Milton.
1872 H. Formby Bk. Holy Rosary iii. 19/2 By having recourse to Adam's guidance, she ought to have been able to have rescued herself from committing it.
1993 B. Bouldrey Genius of Desire i. 27 And that is how she rescued herself from crying.
4. intransitive. To bring rescue, redress, or deliverance.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > afford deliverance [verb (intransitive)]
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2019 (MED) No lawe mai rescowe Fro him that wol no riht allowe.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 517 Thar is no thing sal sucour nor reskew, Your worldly honore nedis most adew.
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 150 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 286 All the remanent..Cumis in thair best maneiris To reskew as thay may.
1611 Bible (King James) Dan. vi. 27 He deliuereth and rescueth . View more context for this quotation
1693 G. Stepny tr. Juvenal Satire VIII 151 in J. Dryden Satires Juvenal & Persius 153 Riches cannot rescue from the Grave, Which claims alike the Monarch and the Slave.
1794 C. Smith Banished Man II. v. 88 While the English with one hand rescued, with the other they seemed disposed to draw the sword against a whole people.
1820 T. B. Howell State Trials XXVII. 973 He who makes the affray, and rescues, but does not draw a weapon, shall not lose his hand.
1851 Sailor's Mag. Feb. 183/1 It goes not out, armed with murderous guns to destroy, but with food and raiment, with chart and compass, to rescue and restore.
1956 G. W. Bromiley tr. K. Barth Church Dogmatics IV. i. xiii. 73 It is His will not merely to rescue, but to save.
2008 D. Plummer Anger Managem. i. iv. 39 Aim to support rather than rescue.
5. transitive. Law. To recover or take back (property) by force; to liberate (a person) from legal custody by unlawful force. Also in figurative context. In later use frequently with from.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > with violence or forcibly > back
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (transitive)] > illegally remove from custody
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1540 Inst. Lawes Eng. f. 31v Rescouse is, when the lorde vpon the lande holden of him, distreyneth for his rent behynde, and the distresse is rescued from him.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. v. f. 13v Claudius seyng the maide like to be rescued, by the multitude that was assembled, said, that there was no neede of that hurlie burlie.
1568–9 Act 11 Eliz. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 328 Until he or they pay to the..seyser of the said hogges..the value and price of the swine so rescowed.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 143 Had not Damain D'Aguiar..had the charge thereof,..there was so great a concourse of people..that the offender had been easily rescued.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 160 b If the Tenant rescue the distres [etc.].
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1643 77/2 The Scots took Coquet Island.., and rescued and restored to the Owners a great Herd of Cattel taken away by the King's Forces.
1680 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 55 Two Jesuits goeing to prison..were rescued and taken quit away out of the officers hands.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke vii. 17 The Lord of Life Arrests the Serjeant Death, and Rescues the Prisoner out of his hand.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 12 They may be rescued by the owner, in case the distress was taken without cause.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 4 They..rescue the general, and drive away the sheriff's officers.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 79 When..Wilson..had arrived at the scaffold.., there appeared no signs of that attempt to rescue him.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 569 There is no rule prescribed by the law of England in the case of foreign property rescued.
1899 J. C. Hawker Early Experiences in S. Austral. 67 A numerous party of the ‘Tiersmen’ were in Adelaide and an attempt would be made to rescue the prisoners.
1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vi. 149 The same sentiment..had applauded..the life sentence..for complicity in a rather mad attempt to rescue some prisoners from a police van.
1991 T. P. Slaughter Bloody Dawn ix. 169 Jackson Johnson and five others ‘rescued’ his goods from the custody of the law.
2002 K. Cunningham Imaginary Betrayals iii. 79 Ballard had plotted with the Spanish..to invade England, assassinate Elizabeth, and see Mary, Queen of Scots, rescued from custody and enthroned.
6. Bridge.
a. transitive. To aid (a partner) with a rescue bid.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid
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1921 F. Irwin Compl. Auction Player x. 133 It is seldom wise to attempt to ‘rescue’ your partner from a double.
1978 Times 11 Nov. 12/7 The responder is expected to pass unless a Double invites him to rescue his partner.
2005 B. Manley Tao of Bridge v.39 Don't ‘rescue’ partner with a bad hand after a minor-suit opener.
b. intransitive. To make a rescue bid.
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1950 Times 16 Aug. 6/4 East ‘rescued’ with One No Trump and the partnership was out of the frying pan into the fire.
1961 T. Reese Bridge (1963) vi. 80 Responder is not called upon to rescue on a weak hand.
2004 D. Bird & N. Sarantakos Bridge Hands xxv. 146 Hoping that his partner held a 5-0-3-5 shape (or at worst 5-1-2-5), Gabriel Harfouche took it upon himself to rescue into 5♢.
7. transitive. Virology and Molecular Biology. To restore (a virus) to productive infectivity; to restore (a mutant gene or its associated phenotype) to normal expression or function. Cf. rescue n. 4.
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1949 Bot. Rev. 15 500 However, B infected with either T2 or T4 in the presence of 5MT is unable to liberate active virus unless ‘rescued’ by the removal of the compound or the addition of tryptophane.
1956 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 42 508 Markers carried by non-bar particles could, however, be incorporated into vegetative particles with the bar loci by means of recombination and thus be ‘rescued’.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 246 An example..is the inability of adenoviruses to multiply in monkey cells..; interestingly, they can be rescued by co-infection with a simian papovavirus (SV40) or a simian adenovirus, which act as helpers.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2819/2 The ultimate proof that a functional tyrosinase gene is encoded at the c-locus is to rescue the albino phenotype in transgenic mice.
2000 P. Stanley in M. Fukuda & O. Hindsgaul Molecular & Cellular Glycobiol. v. 180 The mutant cells will be ‘rescued’ by the wild-type cells to at least a certain extent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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