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‖ vraic|vreɪk|
[F. dial. (Channel Islands) vraic, also vrec, vrac: see wrack n. and cf. varec.]
A seaweed found in the Channel Islands, used for fuel and manure.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 30 Vraic or Orewood, (Alga Marina) is diuersly applyed for soyling. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Vraic, a kind of Sea-weed, of which they make fuel in the isles of Jersey and Gernsey. 1694Falle Jersey ii. 67 'Tis a Sea-weed; but a Weed more valuable to Us than the choicest Plant that grows in our Gardens. We call it Vraic;..and it grows on the Rocks about the Island. 1736[W. R. Chetwood] Voy. Vaughan vii. II. 203 For Fuel..they make use of a Sea Weed, by the Inhabitants call'd Vraic [printed Vraù]. 1742De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 269 Their Manure is Sea-weed, call'd Vraic, of which we have taken notice above. a1847Eliza Cook Song Seaweed xxix, The Vraic! the Vraic! pile it on to the fire. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xx. 469 The load of fresh vraic is computed to give three bushels of ashes. 1881B. Webber In Luck's Way i. i, Amid this wilderness of rock and vraic and wrinkled sand.
attrib.1865Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds Concl. 138, I have turned over the vraic-heaps as they were carted up from the lowest tide.
Hence ˈvraicker, one who gathers vraic. ˈvraicking, the gathering of vraic. Also attrib.
1835H. D. Inglis Channel Isl. 64 At half tide, or low water multitudes of carts and horses, boats and vraickers, cover the beach. Ibid. 63 The vraicking parties consisting of eight, ten, or twelve persons. 1852Lane Clarke Guernsey & Jersey iii. 57 For a walk or a ride to either of these bays on a vraicing day. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. vi. 123 It is only used..during the vraicking season. Ibid. iv. xxii. 515 Vraicking in the Channel Islands is a custom that time has hallowed into an institution. |