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. nauticalA free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).

   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

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   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.

   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

   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. But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.

   2011, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers, →ISBN, page 119