Wrecker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wrecker \Wreck"er\, n.
     1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of
        vessels, etc. Specifically:


        (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
        (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a
            wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the
            wreckers of Key West.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A vessel employed by wreckers.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wrecker
       n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
       2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
          [syn: {saboteur}, {diversionist}]
       3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to
          remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: {tow truck}, {tow
          car}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrecker":
     animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast,
     biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher,
     depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter,
     exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast,
     idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist,
     pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver,
     rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator,
     syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild man