save-alls, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

save-alls n.

[SE save-all, ‘a kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers to burn snuffs and ends of candles’ (Grose, 1785)]

(Anglo-Irish) ‘boys running about gentlemen’s houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted’ (Grose, 1785).

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.