SALVAGE

I. noun see: save Date: 1645 1. compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck, the act of saving or rescuing a ship or its cargo, the act of saving or rescuing property in danger (as from fire), 2. property saved from destruction in a calamity (as a wreck or fire), something extracted (as from rubbish) as valuable or useful, II. transitive verb (~d; salvaging) Date: 1889 to rescue or save especially from wreckage or ruin, ~ability noun ~able adjective ~r noun