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wrecker

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wrecker
1. Chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars
2. (formerly) a person who lures ships to destruction to plunder the wreckage
3. US and Canadian another word for tow truck
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Robert Stuart, however, set out in a canoe with five men and an interpreter, ferreted out the wreckers in their retreat, and succeeded in wrestling from them their booty.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
We remained here a week, were not ill-treated by the wreckers, and at length obtained a passage to New York.
The Oblong Box by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
The four pushed side by side; the outer wall bulged, split, and fell, and the villagers, dumb with horror, saw the savage, clay-streaked heads of the wreckers in the ragged gap.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
 
 
 
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