Meaning of WRECKER
| Pronunciation: | | 'rekur
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- [n] a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
- [n] someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- [n] someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
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| | Synonyms: | | diversionist, saboteur, tow car, tow truck |
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| | See Also: | | destroyer, housebreaker, housewrecker, jack, knacker, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, motortruck, ruiner, sleeper, truck, undoer, uprooter, waster | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wreck"er\, n.
1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of
vessels, etc. Specifically:
(a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
(b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a
wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the
wreckers of Key West.
3. A vessel employed by wreckers.
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