save-all

English

Noun

save-all (plural save-alls)

  1. Anything that saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.
    1. A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned.
    2. (nautical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
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    3. A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for save-all in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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