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Wrecking pump

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 pump

n. A pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.