wracks in English
noun
1
any of a number of coarse brown seaweeds that grow on the shoreline, frequently each kind forming a distinct band in relation to high- and low-water marks. Many have air bladders for buoyancy.
Saw wrack is the main seaweed used, taken fresh from the shore, washed in seawater and stored briefly.
2
a wrecked ship; a shipwreck.
This ancient chart of the "Spanish wrack " as it is labeled, is owned by the present Duke of Argyll, and has been used by the modern treasure seekers who are unable even with its aid to find the remains of the Florencia, so deeply have her timbers sunk in the tide-swept silt of the bay.
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