{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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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