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WAD to WARP
WASH to WATER-LINES
WATER-LOGGED to WAY of a ship
WEARING to WELL-ROOM
WHARF to WIND
WIND to WINDLASS
WINDSAIL to WRECK
WINDSAIL
WINGS
WOOLDING
To WORK
WORKING to windward
WORMING
WRECK
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WRECK
WRECK, the ruins of a ship which has been stranded or dashed to pieces on a shelf, rock, or lee-shore, by tempestuous weathers.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 325, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1521.html