Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
--Shak.
2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train.
3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on.
Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck
themselves. --Daniel.
{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.