wreckingn.¹

Etymology: < wreck v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking.

1. The action of destroying by shipwreck or causing wreck; the fact of having suffered wreck; demolition.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun]

shipbrechea1067

ship-breaking1398

ship-brechinga1400

shipwreckc1450

wreck1463

wrake1513

wrack1579

naufrage1589

wrecking1775

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition

subversiona1382

razinga1400

racing?a1450

beating down1530

rasing1552

demolishing1560

plucking1560

demolitiona1572

downpulling1581

demolishment1602

slighting1640

wreck1711

wrecking1775

wreckage1837

train-wrecking1872

unbuilding1879

demo1945

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Wrecking,..the act of destroying by dashing against rocks or sands at sea; the act of destroying by violent means.

1851 W. Collins Rambles beyond Railways (1852) v. 108 ‘Wrecking’ is a crime unknown in the Cornwall of our day.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 3 Wrecking was no longer permitted by public morality.

1891 C. Dawson Avonmore 46 Till drunk with wrecking's awful toil, Havoc will laugh and Ruin smile!

1940 Construction Methods Apr. 110/2 Wrecking is, in reality, construction in reverse gear... At the Louisville, Ky. East End slum clearance project..there were approximately 480 buildings to wreck... The Cleveland Wrecking Co. has had many large contracts of this type.

1972 Times 10 Mar. (Suppl.) p. ii/1 (advt.) The most experienced firm in the U.K. in the wrecking of blast furnaces.

attributive.1885 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 11 428/1 The Wrecking system once practised on the English coasts.

2. concrete. That which is wrecked; plural wrecked remains.

ΘΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > a ruin or wreck > ruins

tatter1402

ash1553

downfall1575

destruction1585

parietines1621

masure1623

detriments1632

wreck1713

wrecking1855

lagan1906

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 200 The more vigorously all will toil To mend the wreckings of a fallen race.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

wrecking company n.

ΘΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > one who demolishes or ruins

demolisher1615

dilapidator1812

house wrecker1849

housebreaker1870

wrecking company1940

wrecker1958

1940Wrecking company [see sense 1].

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 Apr. 7/1 A wrecking company recently signed a contract to level all 30 of the remaining 11-story buildings.

C2.

wrecking ball n. a large, heavy metal ball which, hung from a crane, may be swung into a building to demolish it.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > demolition equipment

wrecking ball1952

demolition ball1953

1952 Business Week 19 July 33/2 Instead of using a one-ton wrecking ball at the end of a 60-ft. beam, the building must be knocked down..with a 16-lb. sledge hammer.

1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 34/4 It's the laugh of a man who just watched a wrecking ball smash his house to splinters so a new freeway could go through.

1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 50/2 The wrecking ball bursts through the wall with the bookshelves, scattering the works of famous authors.

wrecking bar n. an iron bar with one end chisel-shaped for prising and the other bent and split to form a claw.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] > lever with claw end

cant-dog1850

claw-lever1892

wrecking bar1924

1924 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 148. 866/3 Wrecking Bars. Forged steel 24-inch, 30c.

1947 Construction Methods Mar. 88/2 To minimize damage to material during removal, the contractor developed his own tools as supplements to the standard wrecking bar and claw hammer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

wreckingn.²

Etymology: < wreck n.¹ 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking.

North American.

The action or business of salvaging a wreck or wrecks.Earliest in compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > salvaging operations

salvage1713

wrecking1804

wreck-works1903

1804 D. M’Kinnen Tour Brit. W. Indies ix. 144 Effecting an immediate escape in a wrecking-vessel from this wild and inhospitable spot.

1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 35 Wrecking has become a regular vocation for considerable portion of the population.

1969 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 63/2 (advt.) Jaguars, wrecking now. Continually dismantling 2·4, 3·4 and 3·8.

Compounds

C1. attributive, esp. in sense ‘used for, or in connection with, relating to, salvaging wreck’, as wrecking car, wrecking crane, wrecking outfit, wrecking pump, wrecking train; also wrecking law, wrecking operation.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage

wrecking1804

salving1869

1804 D. M’Kinnen Tour Brit. W. Indies ix. 144 Effecting an immediate escape in a wrecking-vessel from this wild and inhospitable spot.

1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 36 Copies of abstract of the wrecking laws.

1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 62 The harbour-master.., who formerly commanded a wrecker and now owns licensed wrecking vessels.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 644/1 Fairbairn's traveling-crane..is adapted for a wrecking-crane for railroad use.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2821/1 Wrecking-car, one carrying devices for removing obstructions from the track, such as wrecked cars or locomotives.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2821/2 Wrecking-pump, a steam-pump specially designed for pumping the water out of bilged or sunken vessels, in order to raise them.

1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 914/2 A wrecking train soon removed the débris.

1898 Engin. Mag. 16 68 The wrecking outfit should be immediately available.

1898 Engin. Mag. 16 68 Wrecking operations.

C2. attributive, in sense ‘engaged in salvaging wreck or wrecks’, as wrecking company, wrecking crew, wrecking expedition.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage > engaged in salvage operations

wrecking1851

1851 E. Lucett Rovings in Pacific I. 149 Bound on a wrecking Expedition.

1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 33 A wrecking crew of curlew hastily manned the uprooted tree that tossed wearily beyond the bar.

1891 in Leeds Mercury 19 Sept. 12 Captain Merritt, of the Merritt Wrecking Company.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xiii. 118 Then the buildings grew smaller... The wrecking yards and hot-dog stands, the out-city dance halls.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 32/2 (advt.) Well established wrecking business with living quarters on large lot fronting on Napanee River.

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British. Angling. The action or practice of fishing over a shipwreck.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > type of

night fishing1653

night-angling1675

boat work1789

sea-angling1833

wrecking1973

belly boating1976

1973 Sea Angler Apr. 9/2 Enquiries I made..convinced me that wrecking is regarded as something of the ultimate in sea-angling.

1986 Sea Angling Handbk. Summer 24/2 Ted has an obsession for truly sporting fishing..and..is less favourably disposed towards the sweat and strain of wrecking.

1999 Boat Angler May (Special ed.) 11/2 They all hired my tackle, most had done hardly any fishing before and certainly no wrecking.

2012 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 39 An offshore mark..provided a great day's sport of long-range wrecking for Plymouth-based enthusiasts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wreckingadj.

Etymology: < wreck v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking.

1. That wrecks; causing wreck, ruin, or destruction; destructive. wrecking amendment n. Politics one designed to defeat the purpose of the bill concerned.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]

fellc1330

undone1340

ruinous?a1439

violablea1470

perniciousc1475

destructive1490

confusible1502

destroying1535

exitiable1548

ruinate1562

peremptory1567

wrackful1578

slaughterous1582

ruinating1595

ruining1605

corrumpent1607

wracksome1608

in suds1611

destructory1614

poisonousa1616

wrakefulc1625

predatory1626

predatorious1641

demolishing1648

untwined1649

undoing1654

destructionable1656

destructful1659

mortal1670

wreckinga1677

fatal1692

quadrumanous1704

interdestructive1805

annihilatory1825

demolitionary1834

ruinatious1845

consumptive1860

thunderous1874

society > law > legislation > [noun] > amendment of bill

amendment1581

reasoned amendment1904

wrecking amendment1967

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 228 [Industry] is in it self..satisfactory; as freeing our mind from distraction, and wrecking irresolution.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. ix. 426 The wrecking fury of the storm.

1880 R. Bridges Shorter Poems in Wks. (1912) 275 The moon, That poured her midnight noon Upon his wrecking sea.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 7/2 Playing a wrecking game towards the present Government.

1967 M. Pinto-Duschinsky Polit. Thought of Lord Salisbury vii. 145 Its very moderation led directly to the passing of a wrecking amendment by Lord John Russell, who favoured a different and much more far-reaching measure.

1979 H. Wilson Final Term ix. 189 Again the Conservatives, with considerable Labour support, moved ‘wrecking’ or near-wrecking amendments.

2. Going to wreck; becoming wrecked.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > becoming dilapidated or ruinous

ruinatinga1661

ruining1685

dilapidating1781

wrecking1903

1903 S. E. White Forest viii A man..scaled the face of the moving jam, and reached the top just as the two sections ground together with the brutish noise of wrecking timbers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

n.¹1775

n.²1804

adj.a1677

单词	wrecking
释义	wreckingn.¹ Etymology: < wreck v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking. 1. The action of destroying by shipwreck or causing wreck; the fact of having suffered wreck; demolition. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun] shipbrechea1067 ship-breaking1398 ship-brechinga1400 shipwreckc1450 wreck1463 wrake1513 wrack1579 naufrage1589 wrecking1775 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition subversiona1382 razinga1400 racing?a1450 beating down1530 rasing1552 demolishing1560 plucking1560 demolitiona1572 downpulling1581 demolishment1602 slighting1640 wreck1711 wrecking1775 wreckage1837 train-wrecking1872 unbuilding1879 demo1945 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Wrecking,..the act of destroying by dashing against rocks or sands at sea; the act of destroying by violent means. 1851 W. Collins Rambles beyond Railways (1852) v. 108 ‘Wrecking’ is a crime unknown in the Cornwall of our day. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 3 Wrecking was no longer permitted by public morality. 1891 C. Dawson Avonmore 46 Till drunk with wrecking's awful toil, Havoc will laugh and Ruin smile! 1940 Construction Methods Apr. 110/2 Wrecking is, in reality, construction in reverse gear... At the Louisville, Ky. East End slum clearance project..there were approximately 480 buildings to wreck... The Cleveland Wrecking Co. has had many large contracts of this type. 1972 Times 10 Mar. (Suppl.) p. ii/1 (advt.) The most experienced firm in the U.K. in the wrecking of blast furnaces. attributive.1885 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 11 428/1 The Wrecking system once practised on the English coasts. 2. concrete. That which is wrecked; plural wrecked remains. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > a ruin or wreck > ruins tatter1402 ash1553 downfall1575 destruction1585 parietines1621 masure1623 detriments1632 wreck1713 wrecking1855 lagan1906 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 200 The more vigorously all will toil To mend the wreckings of a fallen race. Compounds C1. General attributive. wrecking company n. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > one who demolishes or ruins demolisher1615 dilapidator1812 house wrecker1849 housebreaker1870 wrecking company1940 wrecker1958 1940Wrecking company [see sense 1]. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 Apr. 7/1 A wrecking company recently signed a contract to level all 30 of the remaining 11-story buildings. C2. wrecking ball n. a large, heavy metal ball which, hung from a crane, may be swung into a building to demolish it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > demolition equipment wrecking ball1952 demolition ball1953 1952 Business Week 19 July 33/2 Instead of using a one-ton wrecking ball at the end of a 60-ft. beam, the building must be knocked down..with a 16-lb. sledge hammer. 1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 34/4 It's the laugh of a man who just watched a wrecking ball smash his house to splinters so a new freeway could go through. 1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 50/2 The wrecking ball bursts through the wall with the bookshelves, scattering the works of famous authors. wrecking bar n. an iron bar with one end chisel-shaped for prising and the other bent and split to form a claw. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] > lever with claw end cant-dog1850 claw-lever1892 wrecking bar1924 1924 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 148. 866/3 Wrecking Bars. Forged steel 24-inch, 30c. 1947 Construction Methods Mar. 88/2 To minimize damage to material during removal, the contractor developed his own tools as supplements to the standard wrecking bar and claw hammer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019). wreckingn.² Etymology: < wreck n.¹ 3.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking. North American. The action or business of salvaging a wreck or wrecks.Earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > salvaging operations salvage1713 wrecking1804 wreck-works1903 1804 D. M’Kinnen Tour Brit. W. Indies ix. 144 Effecting an immediate escape in a wrecking-vessel from this wild and inhospitable spot. 1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 35 Wrecking has become a regular vocation for considerable portion of the population. 1969 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 63/2 (advt.) Jaguars, wrecking now. Continually dismantling 2·4, 3·4 and 3·8. Compounds C1. attributive, esp. in sense ‘used for, or in connection with, relating to, salvaging wreck’, as wrecking car, wrecking crane, wrecking outfit, wrecking pump, wrecking train; also wrecking law, wrecking operation. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage wrecking1804 salving1869 1804 D. M’Kinnen Tour Brit. W. Indies ix. 144 Effecting an immediate escape in a wrecking-vessel from this wild and inhospitable spot. 1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 36 Copies of abstract of the wrecking laws. 1868 H. D. Grant Rep. Wrecking in Bahamas 62 The harbour-master.., who formerly commanded a wrecker and now owns licensed wrecking vessels. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 644/1 Fairbairn's traveling-crane..is adapted for a wrecking-crane for railroad use. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2821/1 Wrecking-car, one carrying devices for removing obstructions from the track, such as wrecked cars or locomotives. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2821/2 Wrecking-pump, a steam-pump specially designed for pumping the water out of bilged or sunken vessels, in order to raise them. 1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 914/2 A wrecking train soon removed the débris. 1898 Engin. Mag. 16 68 The wrecking outfit should be immediately available. 1898 Engin. Mag. 16 68 Wrecking operations. C2. attributive, in sense ‘engaged in salvaging wreck or wrecks’, as wrecking company, wrecking crew, wrecking expedition. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage > engaged in salvage operations wrecking1851 1851 E. Lucett Rovings in Pacific I. 149 Bound on a wrecking Expedition. 1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 33 A wrecking crew of curlew hastily manned the uprooted tree that tossed wearily beyond the bar. 1891 in Leeds Mercury 19 Sept. 12 Captain Merritt, of the Merritt Wrecking Company. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xiii. 118 Then the buildings grew smaller... The wrecking yards and hot-dog stands, the out-city dance halls. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 32/2 (advt.) Well established wrecking business with living quarters on large lot fronting on Napanee River. Draft additions September 2013 British. Angling. The action or practice of fishing over a shipwreck. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > type of night fishing1653 night-angling1675 boat work1789 sea-angling1833 wrecking1973 belly boating1976 1973 Sea Angler Apr. 9/2 Enquiries I made..convinced me that wrecking is regarded as something of the ultimate in sea-angling. 1986 Sea Angling Handbk. Summer 24/2 Ted has an obsession for truly sporting fishing..and..is less favourably disposed towards the sweat and strain of wrecking. 1999 Boat Angler May (Special ed.) 11/2 They all hired my tackle, most had done hardly any fishing before and certainly no wrecking. 2012 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 39 An offshore mark..provided a great day's sport of long-range wrecking for Plymouth-based enthusiasts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wreckingadj. Etymology: < wreck v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrecking. 1. That wrecks; causing wreck, ruin, or destruction; destructive. wrecking amendment n. Politics one designed to defeat the purpose of the bill concerned. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 society > law > legislation > [noun] > amendment of bill amendment1581 reasoned amendment1904 wrecking amendment1967 a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 228 [Industry] is in it self..satisfactory; as freeing our mind from distraction, and wrecking irresolution. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. ix. 426 The wrecking fury of the storm. 1880 R. Bridges Shorter Poems in Wks. (1912) 275 The moon, That poured her midnight noon Upon his wrecking sea. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 7/2 Playing a wrecking game towards the present Government. 1967 M. Pinto-Duschinsky Polit. Thought of Lord Salisbury vii. 145 Its very moderation led directly to the passing of a wrecking amendment by Lord John Russell, who favoured a different and much more far-reaching measure. 1979 H. Wilson Final Term ix. 189 Again the Conservatives, with considerable Labour support, moved ‘wrecking’ or near-wrecking amendments. 2. Going to wreck; becoming wrecked. ΘΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > becoming dilapidated or ruinous ruinatinga1661 ruining1685 dilapidating1781 wrecking1903 1903 S. E. White Forest viii A man..scaled the face of the moving jam, and reached the top just as the two sections ground together with the brutish noise of wrecking timbers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1775n.²1804adj.a1677
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wreckingadj.

wreckingn.¹

wreckingn.²