save-all

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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. isim 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.”