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salvagee

salvagee noun: one who is salvaged.

Noun

salvagee (plural salvagees)

  1. One who is salvaged.
    • H. G. Wells, The World Set Free
      We are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees.
  2. A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).
    • The salvagee or sub-division system is intended to remove this objection. The gradual and progressive re-action, which forms a distinctive character of this system, generates the strongest adhesion of the twists, or component parts of the rope, . (which at the same time are in spiral directions)...1800, The Commercial Agricultural and Manufacturer's Magazine
    • Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee.1834, Charles Martelli -, The naval officer's guide for preparing ships for sea, page 81

Examples of salvagee in a sentence

  • The salvagee or sub-division system is intended to remove this objection.1800, The Commercial Agricultural and Manufacturer's Magazine:
  • My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it.1872, William Schwenck Gilbert, More "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, page 193:
  • She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the bite of the hawser thrown over the cross-head.2011, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers, →ISBN, page 119:

Forms of salvagee

pluralsalvagees

Origin of salvagee

From salvage + -ee.

Questions about salvagee

What does salvagee mean?
Salvagee means one who is salvaged.
How do you use salvagee in a sentence?
The salvagee or sub-division system is intended to remove this objection.
What part of speech is salvagee?
Salvagee is a noun.
What is the plural of salvagee?
The plural of salvagee is salvagees.

Words near salvagee in the dictionary

  1. salvage yards
  2. salvageability
  3. salvageable
  4. salvageably
  5. salvaged
  6. salvagee
  7. salvagees
  8. salvager
  9. salvagers
  10. salvages
  11. Salvaggio

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