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shipwreck (n.)
mid-15c., from
ship
(n.) +
wreck
. Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c.1100). The verb is recorded from 1580s. The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was M.E.
schipbreke
, from O.E.
scipbryce
.
