wreckmaster

English

Etymology

wreck +‎ master

Noun

wreckmaster (plural wreckmasters)

1. One who is appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wreckmaster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)