dilly-wreck

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• Dilly

  ·noun A kind of stagecoach. ...

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• dilly

  (An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying...

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• Wreck

  (·vt & ·noun) ·see 2d & 3d Wreak. II. Wreck ·vi To suffer wreck or ruin. III. Wreck ·vt The remain...

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• wreck

  The destruction of a ship by stress of weather, rocks, &c.; also the ruins of the ship after such ac...

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• Dilly-dally

  ·vi To loiter or trifle; to waste time. ...

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• dilly-bag

  See dilli ...

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• to dilly-dally

  To delay. A colloquial expression common in the United States. The note this verra morning shall ...

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• Wreck-master

  ·noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, ·etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. ...

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• wreck-fish

  n. The Australian species is Polyprion ceruleum, family Percoidae. Guenther saysthat the European s...

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• wreck-free

  Is to be exempt from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels: a privilege which Edward I. gr...

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• receivers of wreck

  Persons specially charged with wrecked property for the benefit of the shipping interests. ...

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