| Wrecker 1. (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers. Thesaurus Entries 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 |