noun a vessel employed by wreckers.
2. wrecker ·noun one who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
3. wrecker ·noun one who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, ·etc. specifically: (a) one who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) one who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of key west.