wrecking pump (reking pump)

A special steam-pump of great capacity, used in freeing sunken or damaged ve els from water. wreck-master (rek'mas"tėr), n. 1. A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., cast ashore from a wreck. See under wreck, n.-2. A person appointed by owners or salvors to take charge of a wrecked ship or cargo. wreck-wood (rek'wud), п. Wood or timber from wrecked ve els. There stood upon it, in these days, a single rude house of uncemented stones, approached by a pier of wreck wood . R. L. Stevens on, Memoirs of an Islet. Wredin's test. Absence of a certain gelatinous matter from the middle ear of the fetus, taken as evidence that a child has breathed and therefore had been born alive.