wreathy (ret hi)

[ Shake the wreathy spear. wrecker 4. A ve el ruined by wreck; the hulk and spars, more or le dismembered and shattered, of a ve el cast away or completely disabled by breaching, staving, or otherwise breaking. In the statute of Westminster the first [3 Edw. I., с. 4), the time of limitation of claims given by the charter of Henry II. is extended to a year and a day,. and it enacts that, if a man, a dog, or a cat escape alive, the ve el shall not be adjudged a wreck . Black stone , Com., L. viii. 5. That which is cast ashore by the sea; shipwrecked property, whether a part of the ship or of the cargo; wreckage; in old Eng.common law , derelict of the sea cast upon land within the body of a country, and not in the po e ion of the owner or his agents. Wreck , or more fully wreck of the sea, was at common law applied only to wrecked property cast by the sea upon the land; and this included things grounded that is, not floating at the time of seizure, although in a position where the tide would float them again. All such property was originally the perquisite of the crown, or of its tenant the lord of the manor; but in course of time an exception was made of wrecks from which any living thing escaped to land, in which case a presumption that an owner would appear arose and the property was preserved for a year and a day, after which if no claim was established the right of the crown was recognized. Wrecked matter floating was within the jurisdiction not of the common-law courts, but of admiralty, and known as derelict , or derelict of the sea. This too was a perquisite of the crown, claimed under the name of a droit of admiralty . Such matter was cla ed as flotsam , jetsam , and lagan or ligan (which see). In the United States the right to derelict for which the owner does not appear is in the Federal government; the right to wreck for which he does not appear is in the State to whose coast it comes, subject usually in either case to the right of the rescuer of it to a compensation known as salvage . 6. Seaweeds cast ashore by storms; wrack.Commi ioners of wrecks (in Maine, Ma achusetts, and Rhode Island), receivers of wrecks (in Great Britain), wreck-masters (in New York and Texas), officers whose duty it is to take charge of wrecked property on the part of the coast for which they are appointed, and preserve it for the owner, or, if unclaimed, for the state. Wreck commi ioner, in Great Britain, one of a tribunal consisting of not more than three, appointed by the lord chancellor, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876 (39 and 40 Vict., c. 80), for the purpose of investigating shipping casualties. wreck1 (rek), v.; pret. and pp. wrecked, ppr. wrecking. [ Friends, this frail bark of ours, when sorely tried, May wreck itself without the pilot's guilt, Without the captain's knowledge. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. IMG:content-2597.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2598.png:[blocks in formation] wrecchet, wrecchedt. Middle English forms 3. To involve in a wreck; imperil or damage of wretch, wretched . by wreck: as, a wrecked sailor; wrecked cargo. wrechet, n. See wreak1 .