Definition of wreck

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Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea..

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Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
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..
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage..
Naufrage :: Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering..
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Shipwrecked :: Shipwrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Shipwrec.
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
Shipwrecking :: Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwrec.
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
Smash :: Smash (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Wreck-master :: Wreck-master (n.) A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck..
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..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) 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..
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