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train-wreck en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, dated) Dated form of train wreck.
   alt of train wreck
   • Harmon, the fireman lodger, passing through the kitchen on his way out to work, had paused to tell Saxon about the previous day's train-wreck in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot. 1913, Jack London, chapter 14, in Valley of the Moon:

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