Definition of "salving" [salving]

• Present participle of salve. (verb)

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• "He bought the wreck of the great steamship Gavonne for a song, and in salving it achieved the impossible and cleaned up a quarter of a million."
• "Gavonne for a song, and in salving it achieved the impossible and cleaned up a quarter of a million."
• "Riding around the plantation will henceforth be good enough for me, or perhaps salving another Martha; but the bushmen of Guadalcanar need never worry for fear that I shall visit them again."