wrecking pump

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wrecking pump - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
     a. & n. from Wreck, v.
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     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.
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