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wrack

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wrack
1. seaweed or other marine vegetation that is floating in the sea or has been cast ashore
2. any of various seaweeds of the genus Fucus, such as F. serratus (serrated wrack)

cull, brack, wrack
A piece of lumber or brick of a quality below the lowest accepted grade or below specifications.

wrack
1. The lowest grade of softwood.
2. A cull.


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To see her going to wrack and ruin shocked me terribly.
The inky ragged wrack, flying before a nor'-west wind, makes you dizzy with its headlong speed that depicts the rush of the invisible air.
Tis thus, O boy, that Autumn comes, the cold Pitiless autumn of the wrack and mist, Autumn, the season of the cloudless sky, Autumn, of biting blasts, the time of blight And desolation; following the chill Stir of disaster, with a shout it leaps Upon us.
 
 
 
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