Meaning

4 senses
  1. (historical)A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.

  2. A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.

  3. (historical)A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.

    a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail

  4. (archaic)Something that prevents waste or loss.

Forms

plural: save-alls

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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