saveall

Noun

save-all (plural save-alls)

1. (archaic) 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.1891, George Washington Cullum, Edward Singleton Holden, Charles Braden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., page 617
2. (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.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 232
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.1901, Frank O. Butler, The Story of Paper-making
4. (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.1835, John Jeremie, Recent events at Mauritius, page 83