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t on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. Spenser.

A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.

The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.

One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.

A stone bass.

Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.

a. & n. from Wreck, v. 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.

To wreck. [Obs.]

A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. Dryden.

nchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. -- The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship dir…

e bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. -- To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. -- To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.

reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul" Ps. xiii. 5.…

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for c…

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison.

isting, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.

t from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.