What does salvagee mean?
Salvagee means One who is salvaged..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who is salvaged..
H. G. Wells, The World Set Free We are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees.
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.
Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee.
My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it.
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.
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Salvagee means One who is salvaged..
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H. G. Wells, The World Set Free We are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees.
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