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Save-all   /seɪv-ɔl/   Listen
Save-all

noun
1.
A receptacle for catching waste products for further use.
2.
A sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail.
3.
A net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship.






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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



Words linked to "Save-all" :   meshing, sail, receptacle, sheet, mesh, canvas, network, canvass, meshwork, net



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