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Definition of Salvages

Salvage
Salvage Sal"vage, a. & n. Savage. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Salvage
Salvage Sal"vage (?; 48), n. [F. salvage, OF. salver to save, F. sauver, fr. L. salvare. See Save.] 1. The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods. --Encyc. Brit. 2. (Maritime Law) (a) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril. (b) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved. --Kent. Abbot.

Meaning of Salvages from wikipedia

- (Portuguese: Ilhas Selvagens IPA: [ˈiʎɐʃ sɛlˈvaʒɐ̃jʃ]; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean...
- Look up salvage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salvage may refer to: Marine salvage, the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew...
- The Dry Salvages may refer to: the Dry Salvages (M****achusetts), a group of rocks off Rockport, M****achusetts The Dry Salvages, a poem by T. S. Eliot about...
- Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages—is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the north east coast of Cape Ann, M****achusetts. Salvages is pronounced...
- Salvage Hunters is a British television programme in which decorative salvage dealer Drew Pritchard travels throughout the country in search of antiques...
- The Salvager is a British reality television show produced by Attaboy Productions and aired on Discovery Real Time. The show ran for two series featuring...
- In North America, a salvage title is a form of vehicle title branding, which notes that the vehicle has been damaged and/or deemed a total loss by an...
- salvage yard, breaker's yard, dismantler and s****heap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards...
- A salvage tug, also known historically as a wrecking tug, is a specialized type of tugboat that is used to rescue ships that are in distress or in danger...
- a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, which were written during World War II and the air-raids...