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† ˈland-wrack, -wreck Obs.
A wreck on land; the destruction of some object on land; the object so destroyed.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, xxiii, Thus Land⁓wraks Cædars lye, Or Cockle Shells vpon the Shores are drye. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 32 What they took being in a kind of Land-wreck, wherein no body owned goods. a1707Bp. Patrick Autobiog. (1839) 12 Mr. Fuller..was mistaken in saying this College was like a landwrack,..in which there was one left to keep possession. |