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present participle and gerund of wreck examples
plural wreckings
The act by which something is wrecked. quotations examples
The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
1850, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, volume 91, page 93
(obsolete) The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.