"salvagee" meaning in English

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          "text": "H. G. Wells, The World Set Free\nWe are no creators, we are consequences, we are salvagers — or salvagees."
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        "One who is salvaged."
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          "ref": "1800, The Commercial Agricultural and Manufacturer's Magazine:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1834, Charles Martelli -, The naval officer's guide for preparing ships for sea, page 81:",
          "text": "Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee.",
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          "ref": "1872, William Schwenck Gilbert, More \"Bab\" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, page 193:",
          "text": "My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it.",
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          "ref": "2011, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "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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        "A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose)."
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        "(nautical) A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose)."
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        "transport"
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          "text": "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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