Wreck
| v. t. & n. | 1. | See 2d & 3d Wreak. |
| n. | 1. | |
| 1. | The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. |
| 2. | Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. |
| 3. | The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. |
| 4. | The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. |
| 5. | (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. |
| v. t. | 1. | To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. |
| 2. | To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. |
| 3. | To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. |
| v. i. | 1. | To suffer wreck or ruin. |
| 2. | To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. |
WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law
French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast
upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong
to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. 2 Inst. 167;
Bract. 1. 3, c. 3; Mirror, c. 1, s. 13, and c. 3.
2. The term `wreck of the sea' includes, 1. Goods found at low water,
between high and low water mark; and 2. Goods between the same limits,
partly resting on the ground, but still moved by the water. 3 Hagg. Adm. R.
257.
3. When goods have touched the ground, and have again been floated by
the tide, and are within low water mark; whether they are to be considered
wreck will depend upon the circumstances whether they were, seized by a
person wading, or swimming, or in a boat. 3 Hagg. Adm. R. 294. But if a
human being, or even an animal, as a dog, cat, hawk, &c. escape alive from
the ship, or if there be any marks upon the goods by which they may be known
again, they are not, at common law, considered as wrecked. 5 Burr. 2738-9; 2
Chit. Com. Law, c. 6, p. 102; 2 Kent, Com. 292; 22 Vin. Ab. 535; 1 Bro. Civ.
Law, 238; Park, Ins. Index, h.t.; Molloy, Jur. Mar. Index, h.t.
4. The act of congress of March 1, 1823, provides, Sec. 21, That,
before any goods, wares or merchandise, which may be taken from any wreck,
shall be admitted to an entry, the same shall be appraised in the manner
prescribed in the sixteenth section of this act and the same proceedings
shall be ordered and executed in all cases where a reduction of duties shall
be claimed on account of damage which any goods, wares, or merchandise,
shall have sustained in the course of the voyage and in all cases where the
owner, importer, consignee, or agent, shall be dissatisfied with such
appraisement, he shall be entitled to the privileges provided in the
eighteenth section of this act. Vide Naufrage.
To see a wreck in your dream,
signifies your fears of poverty and failure.
accident,
assault,
atomize,
attack,
auto,
autocar,
automobile,
bankrupt,
barbarize,
batter,
beach,
blight,
bloodbath,
blow,
blue ruin,
boat,
botch,
break to pieces,
breakdown,
breaking up,
breakup,
bring to ruin,
brutalize,
bugger,
buggy,
burn,
bus,
butcher,
calamity,
car,
carcass,
carnage,
carry on,
cast away,
casualty,
cataclysm,
catastrophe,
cave,
cave-in,
cleave,
collapse,
collision,
condemn,
confound,
consume,
consumption,
contretemps,
crack-up,
crash,
crate,
cripple,
damn,
damnation,
de-energize,
deal destruction,
debacle,
debilitate,
decimate,
decimation,
depredate,
depredation,
desolate,
desolation,
despoil,
despoilment,
despoliation,
devastate,
devour,
dilapidate,
disable,
disassemble,
disaster,
disenable,
disintegrate,
disintegration,
dismantle,
disorganization,
disruption,
dissolution,
dissolve,
do in,
dog,
drain,
enfeeble,
engorge,
force,
fragment,
go on,
gobble,
gobble up,
grief,
ground,
gut,
gut with fire,
hammer,
hamstring,
havoc,
heap,
hecatomb,
holocaust,
hors de combat,
hulk,
ill hap,
impose,
inactivate,
incapacitate,
incinerate,
jalopy,
kibosh,
lame,
lay in ruins,
lay waste,
loot,
machine,
maim,
make mincemeat of,
mar,
maul,
mere wreck,
misadventure,
mischance,
misfortune,
mishap,
motor,
motor vehicle,
motorcar,
motorized vehicle,
mug,
nasty blow,
nervous wreck,
perdition,
pick to pieces,
pile up,
pileup,
pillage,
play havoc with,
plunder,
pull in pieces,
pull to pieces,
pulverize,
put,
queer,
queer the works,
rage,
ramp,
rampage,
rant,
rape,
rattletrap,
rave,
reduce to rubble,
rend,
riot,
roar,
ruinate,
ruination,
ruins,
run aground,
sabotage,
sack,
savage,
shambles,
shatter,
shipwreck,
shock,
skeleton,
slaughter,
smash,
smashup,
sow chaos,
spike,
split,
spoil,
spoliation,
staggering blow,
storm,
strand,
subvert,
sunder,
swallow up,
take apart,
take the ground,
tear,
tear apart,
tear around,
tear to pieces,
tear to shreds,
tear to tatters,
terrorize,
throw into disorder,
total,
total loss,
tragedy,
trash,
tub,
unbuild,
undermine,
undo,
undoing,
unfit,
unleash destruction,
unleash the hurricane,
unmake,
upheave,
vandalism,
vandalize,
vaporize,
violate,
visit,
voiture,
washout,
waste,
weaken,
wheels,
wing,
wrack,
wrack and ruin,
wrack up,
wreak,
wreak havoc