WRECKER
\ɹˈɛkə], \ɹˈɛkə], \ɹ_ˈɛ_k_ə]\
Definitions of WRECKER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
By Princeton University
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someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
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One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
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A vessel employed by wreckers.
By Oddity Software
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One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
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One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
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A vessel employed by wreckers.
By Noah Webster.
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One who plunders the wrecks of ships: one who, by delusive lights or other signals, causes ships to mistake their course and be cast ashore, that he may obtain plunder from the wreck: one whose occupation is to remove the cargo from a wrecked vessel or to assist in recovering it when washed out, for the benefit of the owners and underwriters; a vessel employed in this occupation.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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