Crossword clues for wrecker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrecker \Wreck"er\, n.
One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
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One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically:
One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
A vessel employed by wreckers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n.). In Britain often with a overtones of "one who causes a shipwreck in order to plunder it" (1820); but in 19c. Bahamas and the Florida Keys it could be a legal occupation. Applied to those who wreck and plunder institutions from 1882. Meaning "demolition worker" attested by 1958. As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. ''(Australia)'' 2 One who break up situations, events. 3 A tow truck. 4 A mooncusser. 5 In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking, that is, undermining the state in intangible ways.
WordNet
n. someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, diversionist]
a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Wrecker, The Wrecker or Wrecking may refer to:
The Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Wrecker is a 2015 Canadian horror film written and directed by Micheal Bafaro. It stars Anna Hutchison and Drea Whitburn as friends on a road trip who are menaced by a psychopathic tow truck driver. It premiered on November 6, 2015, and was released on DVD on January 5, 2016.
Usage examples of "wrecker".
Once they were there, Ennis called for a wrecker to haul the Buick up to Troop D, where they could put it in the parking lot out back, at least for the time being.
To his right a crew comprised mostly of women was at work with a wrecker and a derrick righting a tractor-trailer truck that had jackknifed, partially blocking the street.
One of the wreckers had undoubtedly reported to him that her recep had been fastening his clothes and stalled so she could finish dressing.
It would have given him the option of radioing for a police wrecker to bring him gas, which would have been embarrassing, or getting drowned in the torrential rain trying to walk to a gas station.
Hot-dog vendors, car wreckers, antique dealers, saddlemakers, college professors, vagrants, and movie stars all call Topanga home.
They did not bode well for Darkover, for it seemed that with the Expansionists in power, it was likely that we were going to face the challenge of more plunderers, more World Wreckers.
They are the failures, the Uriah Keeps of humanity, schemers, wreckers of marriages and reputations purely from malicious motivation.
Then, you see, the wreckers have a notion that every thing that comes ashore belongs to them.
World Wreckers came in and assassinated members of the Domains right and left.
Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce -- in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs.
An old tradition: Conchy Joes like him had always been smugglers, from cocaine back through Prohibition rum boats and Civil War blockade runners, and before that wreckers and pirates.
Had her cousin, her geometry teacher, and the man who ran the tobacconist’s shop across from her block of flats truly been counterrevolutionaries, wreckers, spies for the Trotskyites or the decadent imperialists?
Also working in company with the disassemblers were several small wrecker droids, which shoveled up debris or used their built-in plasma torches to melt down scrap metal, plasteel cables, and other rubble considered not worth hauling away, but still too valuable to leave behind as raw materials for the enemy.
Also working in company with the disassemblers were several small wrecker droids, which shoveled up debris or used their built-in plasma torches to melt down scrap metal, plasteel cables, and other rubble considered not worth haul ing away, but still too valuable to leave behind as raw materials for the enemy.
Nearby, the Strawberry Mesa Body Shop and Pipe Queen crowd was located, Ruby Archuleta behind the wheel of the wrecker, with Claudio Garcia beside her.