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What is a save-all?

What is a save-all? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything that saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.
    1. A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned.
    2. (nautical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
    3. A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
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A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair wind and smooth sea.
Another curious illuminating appurtenance was called a save-all or candle-wedge.
Into this save-all water may be admitted to regulate the consistency of the stuff.
The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all.

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