Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various devices for preventing waste, damage, or loss.
- noun A receptacle for catching the waste products of a process for further use in manufacture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contrivance for saving, or preventing waste or loss; a catch-all.
- noun A small sail set under another, or between two other sails, to catch or save the wind.
- noun A trough in a paper-making machine which collects any pulp that may have slopped over the edge of the wire-cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
- noun (Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that saves
fragments , or preventswaste orloss .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship
- noun a receptacle for catching waste products for further use
- noun a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail
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Examples
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To explain every little mark of usury and covetousness, such as the mortgages, bonds, indentures, &c. the piece of candle stuck on a save-all, on the mantle-piece; the rotten furniture of the room, and the miserable contents of the dusty wardrobe, would be unnecessary: we shall only notice the more striking articles.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Epergne, perhaps _épargne_, a save-all or hold-all.
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As long as the world was content to take our manufactures as we chose to make them -- when, no other nation having entered the lists with us, we were without competitors, and absolute masters of the commerce of the world, this make-all save-all principle was undoubtedly the most effective.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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She was some miles inshore of us, and as the day brightened we made her out to be a brigantine (an uncommon rig in those days), standing across our bows, with all studding sails set on the starboard side, indeed everything that could pull, including water sails and save-all.
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The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all.
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The hog, that finds his food among ordure, and greedily devours many things rejected by every other useful animal, is, like poultry, originally kept as a save-all.
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These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little.
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She was some miles inshore of us, and as the day brightened we made her out to be a brigantine (an uncommon rig in those days), standing across our bows, with all studding sails set on the starboard side, indeed everything that could pull, including water sails and save-all.
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In reply, however, I assured him that I MUST waste myself willy-nilly, and that the "Review" was only a save-all.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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All candles, whatever their material, were carefully used by the economical colonists to the last bit by a little wire frame of pins and rings called a save-all.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
chained_bear commented on the word save-all
See usage note on passaree.
February 24, 2008