wrecker

[rek-er]

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noun

a person or thing that wrecks.

a person, car, or train employed in removing wreckage, debris, etc., as from railroad tracks.

Also called tow car, tow truck. a vehicle equipped with a mechanical apparatus for hoisting and pulling, used to tow wrecked, disabled, or stalled automobiles.

Also called housewrecker. a person whose business it is to demolish and remove houses or other buildings, as in clearing sites for other use.

a person or vessel employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels.

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a person who plunders wrecks, especially after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks.

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Origin:
1795–1805; wreck + -er¹

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wrecker (ˈrɛkə)

—n
1.	a person or thing that ruins or destroys
2.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars
3.	(formerly) a person who lures ships to destruction to plunder the wreckage
4.	(US), (Canadian) another word for tow truck

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"As we shoved away from this rocky coast, before sunrise, the smaller bittern, the genius of the shore, was moping along its edge, or stood probing the mud for its food, with ever an eye on us, though so demurely at work, or else he ran along over the wet stones like a wrecker in his storm-coat, looking out for wrecks of snails and cockles. Now away he goes, with a limping flight, uncertain where he will alight, until a rod of clear sand amid the alders invites his feet; and now our steady approach compels him to seek a new retreat. It is a bird of the oldest Thalesian school, and no doubt believes in the priority of water to the other elements; the relic of a twilight antediluvian age which yet inhabits these bright American waters with us Yankees. There is something venerable in this melancholy and contemplative race of birds, which may have trodden the earth while it was yet in a slimy and imperfect state. Perchance their tracks, too, are still visible on the stones."

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