What is "wracks"

Usage examples of "wracks".

A spasm of panic like an electric shock wracks him as he faces the possibility that he might not be on a scheduled train, but he reasons it would not have stopped at a station and the doors would not have opened if it were out of service.

The brig was turning now, bearing round to the north, and one morning she finally came round to a westerly heading and began to ride an incoming tide, skimming above the vast sands of the Thames, all tangled with the wracks of ships, looking like harpsichords that had yielded to the tension of their strings and imploded to black snarls.