Word Meanings - BEWRECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wreck.

WRECKING
a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
WRECKFUL
Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.
WRECKAGE
1. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked. 2. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
WRECK
See WREAK
WRECKER
1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. 2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. One who is employed in saving property or lives
WRECK-MASTER
A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
WRECKFISH
A stone bass.
BEWRECK
To wreck.
SHIPWRECK
1. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. 2. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship;