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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Wracks; Wrack (disambiguation)

wrack         
wrack1
¦ verb variant spelling of rack1, rack4.
Usage
On the complicated relationship between wrack and rack, see usage at rack1.
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wrack2
¦ noun a coarse brown seaweed which grows on the shoreline, often with air bladders providing buoyancy. [Several species belonging to Fucus and other genera.]
Origin
C16: appar. from wrack4; cf. varec.
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wrack3
(also rack)
¦ noun a mass of high, thick, fast-moving cloud.
Origin
ME: var. of rack6.
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wrack4
¦ noun archaic or dialect a shipwreck.
?wreckage.
Origin
ME: from MDu. wrak; related to wreak and wreck.
Wrack         
·noun Wreck; ruin; destruction.
II. Wrack ·noun Coarse seaweed of any kind.
III. Wrack ·noun A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
IV. Wrack ·vt To Wreck.
V. Wrack ·vt To Rack; to Torment.
VI. Wrack ·noun Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
Sea wrack         
  • West Beach, South Australia]]
  • Wrack washed ashore in [[Brunswick, Georgia]] by [[Hurricane Matthew]]
LIST OF PLANTS WITH THE SAME OR SIMILAR NAMES
Seawrack; Wrack (science); Sea wrack
·- ·see Wrack.

Wikipedia

Wrack

Wrack may refer to:

  • wrack (mathematics), a concept in knot theory
  • wrack (seaweed), several species of seaweed
  • Wrack, a novel by James Bradley (Australian writer)
  • Charlie Wrack (1899–1979), English footballer
  • Darren Wrack (born 1976), English footballer
  • Matt Wrack (born 1962), British firefighter and trade unionist
  • Wrack, the leading broodmare sire in North America in 1935
  • Wrack (video game), A first person shooter video game made by Final Boss Entertainment
  • Wrack zone, covered in high water, uncovered at low water.
Examples of use of Wrack
1. "Fire crews feel they have been kicked in the teeth," said Mr Wrack.
2. The problem is the factional divisions which wrack the whole country.
3. Meanwhile, violence continued to wrack the capital and many other areas of the country.
4. FBU general secretary Matt Wrack warned there was "huge anger" among firefighters over the government‘s proposals.
5. Wrack flatly denies his union is driven by an antimodernisation agenda.