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Wrecker

noun

Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job.

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks. Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur.

A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones). Synonyms: tow car, tow truck.

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"Wrecker" Quotes from Famous Books

... cried the smuggler. 'Nay, friend, that rings somewhat false. The good King hath, I hear, too much need of his friends in the south to let an able soldier go wandering along the sea coast like a Cornish wrecker in ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

... here. But on his way from work he must perforce pass many a front, where the electric light casts its brilliant beams quite across the street. Yes, this proprietor can well afford the costly allurement—it pays—a very wrecker's light to lure to destruction. Its baneful brightness makes day of that dark narrow street. Within is warmth, companionship, music, wine, play,—all that appeals to a young man's nature. What wonder that he turns in here rather than go on ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various

... Old Tom was a smuggler; others, even, that he was a wrecker. True it was that often strange lights were seen to flicker outside the bar ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... wastes, and bridgemen from the foothills, roadmasters from the Heart Mountains—home of the storm and the snow—and Rat Canyon trackwalkers that could spot a break in the dark under twelve inches of ballast; Morgan, the wrecker, and his men, and the mountain linemen with their foreman, old Bill Dancing—fiend drunk and giant sober—were scattered on Mount Pilot, while a rotary ahead of a battery of big engines was shoved again and again up the ...

— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

Words linked to "Wrecker" : housewrecker, sleeper, tow truck, tow car, housebreaker, saboteur, waster, jack, undoer, manual laborer, destroyer, laborer, uprooter, wreck, motortruck, ruiner, labourer, truck, diversionist, knacker