salvage

salvage definitions

• The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued. 

• The money from the sale of rescued goods. 

• Summary execution, extrajudicial killing. 

• The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation. 

• The ship, crew or cargo so rescued. 

• The compensation paid to the rescuers. 

• Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods. 

• to rescue. 

• To make new or restore for the use of being saved. 

• To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial. 

• To perform summary execution. 

• to put to use.