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The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
[...] 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.
(sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damagedgoods.
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salvage (third-person singular simple presentsalvages, present participlesalvaging, simple past and past participlesalvaged)
(transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) to rescue.
2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
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.
1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
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.
(transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
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1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis., London: Jacob Tonson,, →OCLC, page 292, lines 855–856:
Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.