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Webster 1913 Edition

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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.

wrecking

wrecking ‎(plural wreckings)

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.
The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.