wreckmaster

An official appointed to take charge of goods, ., cast ashore after a shipwreck. IMG:content-1048.png:[blocks in formation] "Wreck the Franchise Bill."--London Morning Post. *B. In trans.: To suffer wreck or ruin; to be shipwrecked. "Rocks whereon greatest men have often wreck'd." Milton: P. R., ii. 228. wreck-fish, s. Ichthy.: A name sometimes given to Poly prion cernium, the Stone-ba (q. v.), from the circumstance that it often comes in with fragments of wreck. It is very common round Madeira and in the Mediterranean, and ranges south to the Cape of Good Hope. Length about sixteen inches; dark purplish-brown above, silvery-white beneath. wrěck (2), s. [RACK (2).] Mining: A kind of frame or table; a rack. wrěck (3), s. [WREAK, 8.] wrěck-age (age as Ig), subst. [Eng. wreck (1); -age.] 1. The act of wrecking; the state of being wrecked. 2. The ruins or remains of a ship or cargo that has been wrecked; material cast up by or floating on the sea from a wrecked ve el. "A large quantity of wreckage is reported to be floating about the Channel."- London Daily Telegraph. *wrecke subst. [A. S. wræc.] Revenge, vengeance. ( Fabyan : Chronycle , ch. xxx i.) wrěck-er, s . [Eng. wreck (1), s.; -er.] 1. One who plunders the wrecks of ve els. 2. One who, by showing delusive lights or other means, causes ships to go out of their course and be cast ashore, so that he may obtain plunder from the wreck. 3. One whose occupation is to remove the cargo IMG:content-1049.png:[blocks in formation] *2. To pervert, to twist, to wrest. "Wrenching the true cause the false way."- Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II . , ii. 1. "The wreckful storms that cloud the brow of war." Scott : Lady of the Lake, v. 1. wrěck-ing, pr . par . or a. [WRECK V.] wrecking-car, subst. A car or carriage carrying contrivances for removing obstructions from the track, such as wrecked cars or locomotives, fallen rocks' or trees.