naufrage (m)
n.
wrecking, shipwreck, sinking, wreck
naufragé
adj.
wrecked, ruined
naufragé (m)
n.
survivor of shipwreck (who is cast ashore)
naufrager
v.
shipwreck, destroy or sink a ship; be sunk, be destroyed (of a ship); shatter, destroy, ruin
Naufrage
(n.)
Shipwreck; ruin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Naufrage
French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, the impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed up, or so shattered that there remain only the pieces, the accident is called naufrage.
It differs from echouement, which is when the vessel, remains whole, but is grounded; or from bris, which is, when it strikes against a rock or a coast; or from sombrer, which is the sinking of the vessel in the sea, when it is swallowed up, and which may be caused by any accident whatever.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
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