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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WRECKING

ppr. Stranding; running on rocks or on shore; ruining.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WRECKING

WRECKING Wreck "ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Wreck, v. 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

wrecking ball

wreck ing ball |rɛkɪŋ bɔl |(also wrecker's ball ) ▶noun a heavy metal ball swung from a crane into a building to demolish it.

Oxford Dictionary

wrecking ball

wreck |ing ball ▶noun a heavy metal ball swung from a crane into a building to demolish it.