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a. & n. from Wreck, v.
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n.
One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
n.
A stone bass.
v. i.
To suffer wreck or ruin.
n.
Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
v. t.
The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
a.
Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
v. i.
To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
v. t.
Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
v. t.
To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
n.
A vessel employed by wreckers.
n.
The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
v. t.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
v. t.
Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wreck
imp. & p. p.
of Wreck
n.
That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
v. t.
To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
n.
One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
n.
A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
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