(intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
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No ship could live in such a storm.
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a strong mast that lived upon the sea
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c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]: