Definition of wreck

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Wreck (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..

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Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck..
Wrecked :: Wrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Wrec.
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage..
Wrecker :: Wrecker (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..
Rock :: Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..
Wreckful :: Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
Wreck :: Wreck (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..
Wrack :: Wrack (v. t.) To wreck.
Wreck :: Wreck (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..
Naufragous :: Naufragous (a.) causing shipwreck.
Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Wreckage :: Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..
Wreckfish :: Wreckfish (n.) A stone bass.
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
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