save-all

Definitions

1. 1

   Something that prevents waste or loss.

2. 2

   A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way…

   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.
   • An improved “save-all suitable to all kinds of candlesticks, candle or reading lamps, or chandeliers burning wax, composition, or other candles.
3. 3

   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.
   • In designing any save all system one of the cardinal principles is to send no material to the save-all which can be reclaimed in any other waya, and this applies particularly to the gravity variety.
   • A large amount of backwater passing to the save-all will have the effect of keeping its contents in constant motion, and the currents thus set up will seriously impede its action.
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      A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would…

      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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