Word Meanings - WRECKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West. 3. A vessel employed by wreckers.

Related words: (words related to WRECKER)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• 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
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• SAVELOY
  A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.
• SAVE-ALL
  Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass
• SAVOY
  A variety of the common cabbage , having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
• WRECKFUL
  Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.