salvage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.

   [...] the debris was hurled down the hillside on to the line and swept the engine off the track and into the sea; the engine in question, ex-Cambrian 0-6-0 No. 874, was not considered to be worth salvage, and was abandoned.

2. 2
   noun

   Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.

   salvage cars auction

3. 3
   verb

   To rescue.

   Robin van Persie looked to have secured the points for the Gunners with a fine goal from Theo Walcott's through ball. But Perisic dipped a sublime 20-yard shot home to salvage a draw.

4. 4
   verb

   To modify (a false proposition) to create a true proposition.

   Prove or disprove, and salvage if possible.

5. 5
   verb

   To put to use.

   During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.

6. 6
   noun

   Obsolete spelling of savage.

   Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.

7. 7
   name

   A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

   A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.

8. 8
   noun

   the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).