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salvage

Saving or rescue, either as a whole or in part, of any property threatened with destruction, especially at sea. The term is used more specifically for compensation payable to those who, by voluntary effort, have saved a ship and/or its cargo and passengers from complete loss through shipwreck, fire, or enemy action.



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That is hardly my customary fee; I'll take home this first instalment, then return and bring an action for salvage against the skin.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The directors voted you three hundred guineas as salvage, and you refused them.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Before each pavilion was suspended the shield of the knight by whom it was occupied, and beside it stood his squire, quaintly disguised as a salvage or silvan man, or in some other fantastic dress, according to the taste of his master, and the character he was pleased to assume daring the game.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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