"Wreck" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
At eommon law. Such goods as after a shipwreck are cast upon the land by the sea, aud, as lying within the territory of some county, do not belong to the Jurisdiction‘of the admiralty, but to the com-mon law. 2 Inst. 167; 1 Bl. Comm. 290
To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or
in plundering.
Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the
land by the sea.
The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train.
To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by
driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become
unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
To suffer wreck or ruin.
Destruction or injury of anything, especially by
violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks
or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and
fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on
shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds
or waves; shipwreck.
See 2d & 3d Wreak.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on.
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To wreck.
Read the complete definitionIn French maritime law. Liter-ally, breaking; wreck. Distinguished from naufraye, (q. v
Read the complete definitionIn maritime law. An agreement or stipulation between the owners of different vessels that they shall keep in company, mutually …
Read the complete definitionThe name of an ancient officer ot the common law, whose office and functions are continued iu modern Eugllsh aud …
Read the complete definitionThe basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, …
Read the complete definitionThat which is thrown up by the sea. Also jetsam, wreck, etc
Read the complete definitionBuoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
Read the complete definitionLat. The breaking or wreck of ships; the same as naufragium, (q. v
Read the complete definitiongubà v [A3P; a1] {1} destroy, wreck, put out of order. Ang tambuk naggubà sa ímung pigúra, Fat is ruining …
Read the complete definitionOne who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Read the complete definitionAmong the goods or property of no person; belonging to no person, as treasure-trove and wreck were anciently considered
Read the complete definitionThe throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
Read the complete definitionkabil v [A; ab2] touch, brush against s.t. lightly. Nabanggaan ímung awtu? Wà, nakabilan lang, Did you wreck your car? …
Read the complete definitionLat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about …
Read the complete definitionThe state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
Read the complete definitionDestruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by …
Read the complete definitionA term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without snit or action
Read the complete definitionOne who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
Read the complete definitionA wreck; destruction.
Read the complete definitionv. /MANG-:-EN/ to tear down, demolish, destroy. Saan mo nga rebbaen dayta balay mi. Don’t demolish our house. /MA-/ [= …
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