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Save-all   /seɪv-ɔl/   Listen
noun
Save-all  n.  Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically:
(a)
A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
(b)
(Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
(c)
A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.





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"Save-all" Quotes from Famous Books



... to trust you to take care of me, Josh," said Will, taking a box of matches from his pocket, and lighting a piece of candle, which he stuck upon one of those little points known as a save-all, and then, bending down, he thrust it into a square niche about a foot below the surface of the mine-shaft—one of several carefully chiselled-out holes evidently intended for the woodwork of ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn


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