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单词 save-all
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save-alln.adj.

Brit. /ˈseɪvɔːl/, U.S. /ˈseɪvˌɔl/, /ˈseɪvˌɑl/
Forms: 1600s– save-all, 1700s sewall (Scottish), 1800s save-o'.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: save v., all pron. and n.
Etymology: < save v. + all pron. and n.
A. n.
1.
a. A means for preventing loss or waste, sometimes (depreciative) as contrasted with something which makes positive gains or profit. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > thrift or economical management > means of
sparer1601
save-alla1655
saver1670
a1655 T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) Pref. 2 This Book is a Save-all; It suffers nothing to be lost.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 281 Poultry.., as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a meer save-all . View more context for this quotation
1838 Farmers' Reg. Mar. 754/1 They [sc. cows in planting country] are a mere save-all, and accounted clear gains, and make but little of the reliance for profit.
1870 Echo 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.
1916 Photogr. Jrnl. Amer. Dec. 521/1 This must not be taken to imply that acid amidol is a ‘save all’ in case of serious underexposure.
b. A holder or fitting in which the last of a candle may be burnt to the end, typically consisting of a small pan with a projecting spike on which to fix the candle. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > save-all
prolonger1650
save-all1655
shove-up socket1751
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. 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.
1682 G. Hartman True Preserver & Restorer of Health xlii. 349 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 Candle-stick.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 444/2 Death's a dark-lanthorn, life a candle's-end Stuck on a save-all, soon to end in stink.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 355/1 The tinwares of the swag-barrows are..save-alls, extinguishers, candle-shades, money-boxes, children's plates, and rattles.
1891 Chatterbox 23 May 222/1 Her ‘save-alls’ were tin holders for candle ends... The almost universal use of gas or lamps has long ago done away with the hawking of such ‘save-alls’.
1940 J. E. Wright & D. S. Corbett Pioneer Life in Western Pennsylvania vii. 81 As candles were precious, they were..burned to the very last bit by a small frame of pins and rings called a save-all.
2000 J. E. Crowley Invention of Comfort ii. iv. 133 The deceased father's miserly way of life is represented by a modest pricket candlestick and save-all for candles on the mantle.
c. A receptacle for collecting material which would otherwise be lost or wasted; spec. (in later use) an apparatus in a paper mill for recovering fibres from discharged water, and for clarifying the waste water for reuse.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for matter which might be lost
save-all1797
1797 Monthly Mag. Apr. 301/1 A refrigerator, from which proceeds an additional worm [i.e. tube], to receive the spirit [in cooling and condensing], before it goes to the save-all.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage 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.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 71/2 Front Damper acting as a ‘Tidy Betty’ with Cinder-sifter or Save-all attached.
1911 Times 25 Oct. 25/5 One new patent is a ‘save-all’ for use in recovering pulp and other materials from the water discharged from paper-making machines.
1969 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 10 May b2/2 Programs already in use that reduce the mill's loading of the stream..include..reusing and reconditioning water through high-efficiency save-alls.
2008 A. D. Patwardhan Industr. Waste Water Treatm. xi. 112 Waste water..is passed through a ‘save-all’, which separates the fibres by settling, and clarifies the white water for reuse.
2. A stingy or parsimonious person; a miser. Cf. spend-all n. English regional in later use.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1729 Daily Post 5 Nov. Complaints of Teazers and Tiplers, Termagants, and Rattle-Heads,..Save-alls, and Spend-alls.
1790 Gen. Evening Post 23 Sept. My son, who before this trip I thought would have been a credit to the Save-Alls of London-Wall..wears half-boots, goes to the play at half-price [etc.].
1820 J. Keats in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett., & Literary Remains (1848) II. 63 There is old Lord Burleigh, the high-priest of economy, the political save-all.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 83/1 Seàvv o',..a save-all; a niggardly person.
1903 R. Bridges Epist. Socialist in Monthly Rev. July 152 You know how one day Herschel acosted [sic] Such a philanthropical Save-all, who claimed to acomplish [sic] Some greatest happiness for a greatest number.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 255/2 'E's a kype owd save-all him! Yer woernt get nowt owt on 'im.
3. Chiefly English regional (west midlands and north-western). A small container with a slot in which coins are kept; a child's money box. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > for savings
saving box1691
thrift-box1777
savings box1825
thrift-pot1835
save-all1841
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 555 Save-all,..an earthen bottle with slits at the sides, destin'd to receive all the savings of children.
1842 W. Howitt Rural & Domest. Life Germany xvii. 228 In this manner..enter your rooms..monks with their little savealls in their hands, collecting for hospitals.
1848 Illustr. London News 8 Apr. 238 A vessel resembling in form the save-alls manufactured at the present day. When found, it contained a number of Roman bronze coins.
1891 J. Baron Blegburn Dickshonary 59 Save-o' (money box). A varra nice ornyment for th' childer to use.
4. Nautical. A sail set beneath another sail, or between two other sails, to increase a ship's capacity to catch the wind. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set between or below others
save-all1846
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 363 Water-sail, or Save-all, a small sail occasionally set under a main, spanker, or swinging boom.
1885 D. D. Porter Harry Marline xviii. 228 It was the first time the Quickstep had ever met her match in sailing, and even save-alls did not seem to get her along.
1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 112 In 1775, or soon after, the gaff-topsail began to come in as a save-all.
1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 307 Puff-balls or Save-alls. Extra sails laced to the feet of square sails.
1986 P. O'Brian Reverse of Medal iii. 98 He set studdingsails aloft and alow, with a ringtail to the driver, bonnets, of course, and save-alls under the studdingsails.
5. Chiefly English regional (Cornwall). A pinafore; an overall. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > overall
overall1631
save-all1847
monkey suit1928
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Save-all,..(2) A child's pinafore. Cornw.
1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 103 Ever since I was a boy in a save-all.
1888 J. Fothergill Lasses of Leverhouse iv. 34 The black alpaca monstrosity which I..denominated a save-all.
B. adj.
1. Parsimonious, miserly, stingy. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]
gnedec900
gripplea1000
fastOE
narrow-hearteda1200
narrow?c1225
straitc1290
chinchc1300
nithinga1325
scarcec1330
clama1340
hard1340
scantc1366
sparingc1386
niggardc1400
chinchy?1406
retentivea1450
niggardousa1492
niggish1519
unliberal1533
pinching1548
dry1552
nigh1555
niggardly1560
churlish1566
squeamish1566
niggardish1567
niggard-like1567
holding1569
spare1577
handfast1578
envious1580
close-handed1585
hard-handed1587
curmudgeonly1590
parsimonious?1591
costive1594
hidebound1598
penny-pinching1600
penurious1600
strait-handed1600
club-fisted1601
dry-fisted1604
fast-handed1605
fast-fingered1607
close-fisted1608
near1611
scanting1613
carkingc1620
illiberal1623
clutch-fisteda1634
hideboundeda1640
clutch-fista1643
clunch-fisted1644
unbounteous1645
hard-fisted1646
purse-bound1652
close1654
stingy1659
tenacious1676
scanty1692
sneaking1696
gripe-handed1698
narrow-souled1699
niggardling1704
snippy1727
unindulgent1742
shabby1766
neargoinga1774
cheesemongering1781
split-farthing1787
save-all1788
picked1790
iron-fisted1794
unhandsome1800
scaly1803
nearbegoing1805
tight1805
nippit1808
nipcheese1819
cumin-splitting1822
partan-handed1823
scrimping1823
scrumptious1823
scrimpy1825
meanly1827
skinny1833
pinchfisted1837
mean1840
tight-fisted1843
screwy1844
stinty1849
cheeseparing1857
skinflinty1886
mouly1904
mingy1911
cheapskate1912
picey1937
tight-assed1961
chintzy1964
tightwad1976
1788 ‘P. Pindar’ Brother Peter to Brother Tom 4 For Nature formeth oft a kind Of money-loving, scraping, save-all mind.
1813 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 351 The paltry proceedings of those save-all politicians, who boast of their economy in banishing newspapers from the public offices.
a1881 R. W. Procter Barber's Shop (1883) xi. 65 Still pursuing his save~all theory of a pin a day is a groat a year.
2. Nautical. Designating a sail set under another sail or between two other sails. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > spread (of sails)
abroad1573
save-all1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Vessels with one mast..have..above the cross-jack, a small sail, called a save-all top-sail.
1883 P. E. Dabovich Dizionario di Marina 989/2 Toppsegel der Trabakel, Gabbiola, Cacatois volant, Save-all-sail.
3. Designating a receptacle for collecting material which would otherwise be lost or wasted.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body
aggregativea1617
consolidating1707
save-all1823
1823 J. Badcock Domest. 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.
1882 Practitioner June 467 Save-all tray below taps untrapped and passing into soil-pipe.
1920 War Expenditures (U.S. House of Representatives, 66th Congr. 2nd Sess.) IV. 4328 2 save-all reservoirs (pits only completed).
2010 P. Bajpai Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp & Paper v. 223 The rest of this water is passed through a save-all unit, typically a drum or disk filter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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