salvage a, n [phonetics unavailable]. OED Savage: salvage a 2 b 'horribly wild and rugged.' Cp H GARDNER Composition of Four Quartets (1978), p. 51 'The Dry Salvages and the Little Salvages lie about a mile east-north-easterly ... of the northern point of Cape Ann [Mass].' In place-names, rugged, treacherous; cp RAGGED.
1613 Willoughby Papers 1/23 We ankered in Sollvagg baye: so-called because ther we had the first sight of [the indians]. [?1677] 1971 SEARY 21 Salvage Point. [1689] ibid Salvage. [1689] ibid 275 Salvages. [1900 OLIVER & BURKE] 76 "Old Salvage": Grim stands the well-known sea-mark... / So well known to Harbor Gracians, / The triangular Salvage. 1953 Nfld & Lab Pilot ii, 78-9 Salvage rock ... stands on a shoal bank near the middle of the fairway [near Harbour Grace].
