Definition of: wrecker

(rek′ər) noun
1. One who causes wreck, destruction, or frustration of any sort.
2. One employed in tearing down and removing old buildings.
3. A person, train, car, or machine that clears away wrecks.
4. One employed to recover disabled vessels or wrecked cargoes for the owners; also, a vessel employed in this service; a salvager.
5. One who lures ships to destruction by false lights on the shore in order to plunder the wreck.
6. One who ruins something valuable, as a bank or a railroad, especially for his own profit.