Word Meanings - SAVE-ALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass

Additional info about word: SAVE-ALL

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it. Totten. A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.

Related words: (words related to SAVE-ALL)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNDERDO
  To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
• UNDERCOAT
  1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.