Definition of "save-all" []

• Any of various devices for preventing waste, damage, or loss. (noun)
• A receptacle for catching the waste products of a process for further use in manufacture. (noun)

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• "She was some miles inshore of us, and as the day brightened we made her out to be a brigantine (an uncommon rig in those days), standing across our bows, with all studding sails set on the starboard side, indeed everything that could pull, including water sails and save-all."
• "Epergne, perhaps _épargne_, a save-all or hold-all."
• "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."