Obs. A wreck on land; the destruction of some object on land; the object so destroyed.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., xxiii. Thus Land-wraks Cædars lye, Or Cockle Shells vpon the Shores are drye.
1667. Waterhouse, Fire Lond., 32. What they took being in a kind of Land-wreck, wherein no body owned goods.
a. 1707. Bp. Patrick, Autobiog. (1839), 12. Mr. Fuller … was mistaken in saying this College was like a landwrack,… in which there was one left to keep possession.
