save-all
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Something that prevents waste or loss.
— 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.
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A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
— 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.
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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.
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A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
— 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.
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