Salvagee
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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) nearly parallel; and of consequence, with a power but fractionally inferior to a combination of yarns parallel to each other."
Example
More examples"H. G. Wells, The World Set Free We are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees."
Etymology
From salvage + -ee.
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