Do we say salvage or selvage or selvedge

salvage 192 occurrences

Salvage impossible until ice breaks.

Sometimes they come in a large family all together, the females with their hymn-books, and the men with their different musical instruments,bits of pet salvage from the wrecks of cottage homes.

Albeytte wythout wommen menne were pheeres To salvage kynde, and wulde botte lyve to slea, Botte wommenne efte the spryghte of peace so cheres, Tochelod yn Angel joie heie Angeles bee; Go, take thee swythyn to thie bedde a wyfe; Bee bante or blessed hie yn proovynge marryage lyfe.

Of course it must be given out that they are all needed to help with the salvage operations, and no leave is allowed.

The salvage steamer with her big arc lights glowing through the darkness had been the last artistic touch which brought complete conviction.

The great salvage steamer with the arc light went away, but others remained.

Gone, too, were the salvage steamers and the patrol boats.

I saw two Beares, as white as anie milke, Lying together in a mightie cave, Of milde aspect, and haire as soft as silke, That salvage nature seemed not to have, Nor after greedie spoyle of blood to crave: 565 Two fairer beasts might not elswhere be found, Although the compast* world were sought around.

But all the rest, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day:

It fortunéd, out of the thickest wood A ramping lyon rushéd suddeinly, Hunting full greedy after salvage blood: Soone as the royall

"It fortuned out of the thickest wood A ramping Lyon rushed suddeinly, Hunting full greedy after salvage blood.

[Law], restitution &c 790; redemption, salvage, trover

Price N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c (remuneration) 973; value &c 812.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess^, sess^, tallage^, levy; abkari^; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin^; gabel^, gabelle^; gavel, octroi^, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment^, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Discount N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio^, percentage; rebate, rebatement^; backwardation, contango^; salvage; tare and tret^. sale, bargain; half price; price war.

[payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo. salvage, perquisite; vail &c (donation) 784

It has been interpreted to cover, among other things, the imposition of duties, the designation of ports of entry, the removal of obstructions in bays and rivers, the establishment and maintenance of buoys and lighthouses, and legislation governing pilotage, salvage from wrecks, maritime insurance, and the privileges of American and foreign ships.

What remains offers no salvage to friend, or enemy either.

Its site was a leveled gray mass, sodden, wrecked past all redemption; ruined beyond all thought of salvage.

"I'll allow salvage if you act promptly!"

"I have heard it said, by older sea-faring men than any in this ship," he continued, "that the devil has been known to send one of his mates aboard a lawful trader, to lead her astray among shoals and quicksands, in order that he might make a wreck, and get his share of the salvage, among the souls of the people.

of the timbers used for building purposes is promised, which means a salvage of about $40,000,000 annually as a result of strength tests of southern yellow pine and Douglas fir.

Investment salvage in railroad reorganisation.

Investment salvage in railroad reorganisation.

The captain of the Dolphin says he wants fifty dollars for it as salvage.

Buthere's the tough part of itit's going to cost fifty dollars for salvage to get her from the Dolphin's captain, the old shark!" "Phew!" whistled Jack Curtiss.

selvage or selvedge 0 occurrences

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