Vocabulary : Wreche to Wreeke
Wreche : Wreak.Wreck : See 2d & 3d Wreak. ;; 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. ;; Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. ;; 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. ;; The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. ;; Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. ;; 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. ;; To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. ;; To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. ;; To suffer wreck or ruin. ;; To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or
Wreckage : The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked. ;; That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Wrecked : of Wreck
Wrecker : One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. ;; 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. ;; A vessel employed by wreckers.
