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Webster 1913 Edition


Wrecking

Wreck′ing

,
Adj.
&
Noun.
from
Wreck
,
Verb.
Wrecking car
(Railway)
,
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 wrecked vessel.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wrecking

WRECKING

,
ppr.
Stranding; running on rocks or on shore; ruining.

Definition 2024


wrecking

wrecking

English

Verb

wrecking

  1. present participle of wreck

Noun

wrecking (plural wreckings)

  1. The act by which something is wrecked.
    • 1850, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
      The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  2. The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.