Meaning of save-all | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that prevents waste or loss.
   archaic
2. A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
   historical
3. A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
4. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
   historical

Examples

“Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write⟳ of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.”

“All of the fixtures are set⟳ on full-size marble slabs, having a ½-inch countersink for a save-all, with a 3-inch brass rose, screw-top strainer, connected to a 1¼-inch galvanized-iron waste⟳ pipe with a good incline and entering its 2-inch sectional save-all waste⟳ pipes R, Fig. 18, by a 45-degree connection.”

“The remainder of the furniture consisted of a flat-candlestick, with a saveall; but, for snuffers, Bronze used her scissors, or indeed, upon most occasions, her fingers.”

“Fourthly, an ornamental candle-fastener. This invention is intended to combine⟳ a metallic or other ornament for the candle, acting as a fastener for the candle, with a save-all, by which the objectionable necessity of fastening the candle with paper is done away with.”

“An improved “save-all suitable to all kinds of candlesticks, candle or reading lamps, or chandeliers burning wax, composition, or other candles.”

“At the end⟳ of the "save-all", where the fibers are to leave⟳ the "wire" for the next stage⟳ of their journey, suction-boxes are placed, provided with an air-pump to take⟳ up the surplus water that has not yet found its way through the meshes.”

“In designing any save⟳ all system one of the cardinal principles is to send⟳ no material to the save-all which can be reclaimed in any other waya, and this applies particularly to the gravity variety.”

“A large amount of backwater passing to the save-all will have⟳ the effect of keeping its contents in constant motion, and the currents thus set⟳ up will seriously impede its action.”

“Save-all sails I believe⟳ are commonly laced on to the foot of other sails, in light⟳ weather—she had something of this description under her lower studding sails.”

“Sloops, cutters, smacks, hoys &c. have⟳ a main-sail abaft the mast, as the brigs; upon and before the mast they have⟳ a square sail⟳, or cross-jack; and, above the cross-jack, a small sail⟳, called a save-all top-sail; above that is a top-sail, called a swallow-tailed top-sail, and the next is the top-gallant-sail.”

“There are a few other sails, such as a gaff-topsail, which sets over the spanker; a ring-tail, which sets abaft the spanker; a save-all, under the lower studding-sail boom, and a jib-topsail, which sets flying over the job. These are never met with now in the service.”

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