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noun
Save-all  n.  Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically:
(a)
A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.
(b)
(Naut.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
(c)
A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.





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... forsook him, and kept their distance before him; but one of them looking back, saw three men following Mr. By-ends, and behold, as they came up with him, he made them a very low conge {conge'}; and they also gave him a compliment. The men's names were Mr. Hold-the-world, Mr. Money-love, and Mr. Save-all; men that Mr. By-ends had formerly been acquainted with; for in their minority they were schoolfellows, and were taught by one Mr. Gripe-man, a schoolmaster in Love-gain, which is a market town in the county of Coveting, in the north. This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, ...
— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan
 
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... upon the heads of its promoters. As long as the world was content to take our manufactures as we chose to make them—when, no other nation having entered the lists with us, we were without competitors, and absolute masters of the commerce of the world, this make-all save-all principle was undoubtedly the most effective. But now, when our manufacturers meet with the keenest competition in every market; when a suicidal export of machinery enables the foreigner immediately to benefit by every mechanical ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
 
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Words linked to "Save-all" :   canvass, mesh, meshwork, net, sail, canvas, sheet, receptacle, network



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