Wrecking car

(Railway) a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision.

See also: Wrecking

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He remembered his work, the wrecking car, and the wrecking crew that had toiled under him, and he wondered what had become of Clancey, his right-hand man.
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