Word Meanings - WREAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Avenger. The stork, the wrekere of avouterye . Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to WREAKER)
- AVENGERESS
A female avenger. Spenser. - STORK
Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork - STORK-BILLED
Having a bill like that of the stork. - AVENGER
1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. Milton. - SCAVENGER
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the fifth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle , any beetle