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Wrecking car

Wrecking \Wreck"ing\, a. & n. from Wreck, v.

Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision.

Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.

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wrecking car

n. A railway car fitted with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck resulting from an accident.

Usage examples of "wrecking car".

Yes, there was a powerful wrecking car swinging around ^he corner toward them.

A wrecking car, equipped with derrick and windlass, was parked at the edge of the wharf.

Cars were parked on the gravel off the pavement--several private cars, an official car, and a wrecking car.

It looks as though it will take a wrecking car to get my car out of this ditch.