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save-all|ˈseɪvɔːl|
[f. save v. + all.]
1. A means for preventing loss or waste.
a1655Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. Pref. (1658) 2 This Book is a Save-all; It suffers nothing to be lost. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. iii. I. 281 [The poultry] as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a meer save-all. 1870Echo 28 Nov., Wretched shifts and savealls of reserve and recruiting systems are enough to engage their attention, so far as their war administration is concerned.
2. A receptacle for collecting matter which would otherwise be lost and not utilized. Also attrib.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 301 A refrigerator, from which proceeds an additional worm, to receive the spirit [in cooling and condensing], before it goes to the save-all. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 149 The fat of every kind collected in our kitchens, being rendered, or melted down from day to day, and cast into a ‘save-all tub’, will be found to produce very good soap. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1443 There is, immediately beneath the fountain [for spirits], a saveall, or pierced plate of pewter, through which the drippings from the glasses percolate, and are collected in a shallow basin below. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 71/2 Front Damper acting as a ‘Tidy Betty’ with Cinder-sifter or Save-all attached.
3. A contrivance to hold a candle-end in a candlestick while burning so that it may burn to the end; a common form is a pan with a projecting pin in the centre on which the candle-end is fixed.
c1645Howell Lett. (1655) IV. xxi. 58 In som this light goes out with an ill-favor'd stench; But others have a save⁓all to preserve it from making any snuff at all. 1682G. Hartman True Preserv. Health 348 Heat the pin of a save-all, and then thrust it into the bigger end [of a small candle], and so set it upon a candlestick. 1747Gentl. Mag. XVII. 444/2 Death's a dark-lanthorn, life a candle's-end Stuck on a save-all, soon to end in stink. 1895Army & Navy Price List 15 Sept. 1316/2 [Candle] Saveall, White..each 0/4½.
4. A money-box to receive small savings or contributions. Also dial. (see quot. 1841).
1837Howitt Rur. Life (1842) 228 In this manner..enter your rooms..monks with their little savealls in their hands, collecting for hospitals. 1841Hartshorne Salopia Ant. 555 Save-all,..an earthen bottle with slits at the sides, destin'd to receive all the savings of children.
5. A niggardly, stingy, miserly person. Now dial.
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Saveall,..also a miser. 1820Keats in Life II. 63 There is old Lord Burleigh, the high-priest of economy, the political save-all.
6. Naut. A sail set under another sail or between two other sails. Also attrib.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Vessels with one mast..have..above the cross-jack, a small sail, called a save-all top-sail. 1846in Young Naut. Dict. 1878D. Kemp Man. Yacht Sailing 366 Save-all, a water sail; a sail set underneath booms in light weather.
7. A pinafore; overall. dial.
1864Mrs. Lloyd Ladies of Polcarrow 103 Ever since I was a boy in a save-all. 1888J. Fothergill Lasses of Leverhouse iv. 34 The black alpaca monstrosity which I..denominated a save-all.
8. attrib. or adj. Parsimonious, stingy.
1812Southey Ess. (1832) I. 141 The paltry proceedings of those save-all politicians, who boast of their economy in banishing newspapers from the public offices. 1856R. W. Procter Barber's Shop xi. (1883) 65 Still pursuing his save⁓all theory of a pin a day is a groat a year. |