English Dictionary

save-all

名詞

古語 歴史的

(now rare) Something that prevents waste or loss. / (now chiefly historical) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.

日本語の意味

(現代では稀) 浪費や損失を防ぐもの / (現代では主に歴史的な意味) 蝋燭を最後まで燃やすため、蝋燭の端部を保持するために燭台に取り付けられた装置

The Victorian save-all, once prized for preventing household waste, now sits forgotten on a dusty pantry shelf.

ヴィクトリア朝時代の浪費防止具はかつて家庭の物資を節約するために重宝されていたが、今では埃をかぶった食品棚の上で忘れられている。

意味（1）

(now rare) Something that prevents waste or loss.

Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.

意味（2）

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

The remainder of the furniture consisted of a flat-candlestick, with a saveall; but, for snuffers, Bronze used her scissors, or indeed, upon most occasions, her fingers.

意味（3）

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

At the end of the save-all, where the fibers are to leave the wire for the next stage of their journey, suction-boxes are placed, provided with an air-pump to take up the surplus water that has not yet found its way through the meshes.

意味（4）

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

Save-all sails I believe are commonly laced on to the foot of other sails, in light weather—she had something of this description under her lower studding sails.

save-alls （ plural ）