0 a large metal plate used to bring food, drinks, or letters to people, especially in a formal situation: --
a silver salver
Instead of being carefully excavated and recorded by maritime archaeologists, historically invaluable wrecks risked being destroyed by unscrupulous salvers and treasure hunters.
The salvers recovered bodies and valuables inside the ship.
The remainder of the prosphora is cut into fragments and kept aside in a bowl or salver.
The salver, which is 18.75 inches (about 48 cm) in diameter, is decorated with figures from mythology.
I gave them tea and coffee, and about half an hour after nine had a salver brought in of chocolate, mulled white wine and biscuits.
Lumps of the hulk were lifted up the sheer cliffs using ropes and pulleys, the salvers using rope ladders for access.
This leads salvers to seek to cover themselves by means of a full indemnity from the tanker owner which, in effect, means from the tanker's insurers.
We have been told that salvers are consequently finding it impossible to obtain cover in the insurance market for their potential oil pollution liability when assisting tankers.
