save-all

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

save-alls plural saveall alternative
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