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- English Word Wreche Definition Wreak.
- English Word Wreck Definition See 2d & 3d Wreak.
- English Word Wreck Definition The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
- English Word Wreck Definition Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
- English Word Wreck Definition 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.
- English Word Wreck Definition The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
- English Word Wreck Definition Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
- English Word Wreck Definition 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.
- English Word Wreck Definition To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
- English Word Wreck Definition To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- English Word Wreck Definition To suffer wreck or ruin.
- English Word Wreck Definition To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
- English Word Wreck-master Definition A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
- English Word Wreckage Definition The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
- English Word Wreckage Definition That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
- English Word Wrecked Definition of Wreck
- English Word Wrecker Definition One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
- English Word Wrecker Definition 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.
- English Word Wrecker Definition A vessel employed by wreckers.
- English Word Wreckfish Definition A stone bass.
- English Word Wreckful Definition Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
- English Word Wrecking Definition of Wreck
- English Word Wrecking Definition a. & n. from Wreck, v.
- English Word Wreeke Definition See 2d Wreak.
- English Word Wreke Definition Alt. of Wreeke
- English Word Wren Definition Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.
- English Word Wren Definition Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
- English Word Wrench Definition Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
- English Word Wrench Definition A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
- English Word Wrench Definition A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.