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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Noun.

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Verb.

Wrecking car

(Railway)

a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision.

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Wrecking pump

a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.

ppr.

Stranding; running on rocks or on shore; ruining.