Talk:salvee

RFV discussion: April–July 2016

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salvee might have more meanings

Examples: "... gave us two or three salvees with their musketts ...", "A canoe was loosed from the shore, salvees were exchanged—in an instant more everything was known ...". 73.71.174.75 21:03, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

That's salvoes. You have to click the link to check it isn't a scanno. Equinox ◑ 21:05, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Not the first one, but the second one is a scanno, you are right. 73.71.174.75 21:12, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

This is a very specific term apparently borrowed from Danish, that's now obsolete except in historical usage referring to a technique developed in Sweden in the 1600s of having two or three ranks taking different postures so that each of the back ranks fire their muskets over the heads of the ranks in front of them. This allowed them to all fire at the same time in a single salve or salvee. I'm not sure whether this is the parent of salvo or a doublet of it, but it apparently predates it. Here's a dictionary entry to dispel any notion of scannos or "eye dialect" and give the etymology of the word, here's a more detailed description of the technique, and here's an illustrated mention, while here, here and here are uses. We have the sense in question for Danish at salve and for Swedish at salva, but we're missing an English one and at least a Norwegian Bokmål one at salve (the latter two would be hard to cite). Chuck Entz (talk) 06:06, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Striking since nothing has been nominated. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:43, 15 July 2016 (UTC)