Definitions for save-all

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Spelling: [seyv-awl]

IPA: /ˈseɪvˌɔl/

Save-All is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in save-all (-aaellsv).

Definitions for save-all

noun

1. a means, contrivance, or receptacle for preventing loss or waste.
2. Older Use. overalls (def 3).
3. Nautical. a net secured between a pier and a ship, beneath cargo being transferred from one to the other. a sail for utilizing wind spilled from the regular sails of a vessel: used in very light winds.

Origin of save-all

First recorded in 1635-45; noun use of verb phrase save all

Examples for save-all

Into this save-all water may be admitted to regulate the consistency of the stuff.

DDairy, the business of, generally carried on as a save-all, 96.

A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair wind and smooth sea.

Under every lamp stands a sort of “save-all,” consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over.

For this reason the trough into which it falls from the revolving "wire" is called the "save-all."

The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all.

Under every lamp stands a sort of "save-all," consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over.

Another curious illuminating appurtenance was called a save-all or candle-wedge.