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  1. wreckers

    A name which includes both meritorious salvors of ships in distress, and the felonious brutes who merely hasten to wrecks for plunder. One of our British colonies deemed it so entirely a legal procedure to make a wreck of or cripple a vessel on the reef, that a naval officer was threatened with legal proceedings by a lawyer whom he prevented from carrying out his practice afloat.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wreckers in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wreckers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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