salvagee

1. (nautical) A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).Examples: "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."; "Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee."; "My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it."