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Salvage   /sˈælvədʒ/  /sˈælvɪdʒ/   Listen
Salvage

verb
1.
Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.  Synonyms: relieve, salve, save.
2.
Collect discarded or refused material.  Synonym: scavenge.
noun
1.
Property or goods saved from damage or destruction.
2.
The act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction.
3.
The act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire.



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"Salvage" Quotes from Famous Books



... two top floors were burnt out, and the fire was nearly got under. There were three engines, and the men were up on the window-sills of the second-floor with the branches, playin' on the last of the flames, while the men of the salvage-corps were getting the furniture out of the first floor. Conductor Brown was there with his escape, and had saved a whole family from the top floor, just before I arrived. He had been changed from his old station at the West End ...
— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne
... unsuccessful, and it was not for thirty-six hours until the river, swollen by heavy rains in the Ochori region, lifted the Zaire clear of the obstruction, that Bones might record the story of his salvage. ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... reading this excellently written history of stirring deeds, I must believe that even men of learning will thank him for rescuing many good names from the oblivion which threatened them. And Mr. WRIGHT is not only to be congratulated on this act of salvage, but also on the admirable way in which he has performed it. A restrained style and a temperate judgment are equally at his command. I cannot better commend his book to Imperialists than by saying that all Little ...
— Punch, 1917.07.04, Vol. 153, Issue No. 1 • Various
... are being migrated from bad land to good; villages are being rebuilt; industries encouraged; health safeguarded; fisheries revived. Those who examine its work as we did last summer will experience the feeling of men looking on at a splendid and gallant effort to salvage ...
— Home Rule - Second Edition • Harold Spender
... thing for us," he said, "if we could arrive at Pittsburgh with more cannon than we started with at New Orleans. We've got divers and the best of boatmen in our fleet, and I'm in favor of going out at once to salvage those guns." ...
— The Riflemen of the Ohio - A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" • Joseph A. Altsheler


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