vraicn.
/vreɪk/, U.S. /vreɪk/ A seaweed found in the Channel Islands, used for fuel and manure.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 30 Vraic or Orewood, (Alga Marina) is diuersly applyed for soyling.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Vraic, a kind of Sea-weed, of which they make fuel in the isles of Jersey and Gernsey.
1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of 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. W. O. G. Vaughan II. 203 For Fuel..they make use of a Sea Weed, by the Inhabitants call'd Vraic [printed Vraù].
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 269 Their Manure is Sea-weed, call'd Vraic, of which we have taken notice above.
a1847 E. Cook Song Seaweed xxix The Vraic! the Vraic! pile it on to the fire.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xx. 469 The load of fresh vraic is computed to give three bushels of ashes.
1881 B. Webber In Luck's Way i. i Amid this wilderness of rock and vraic and wrinkled sand.
Derivatives
ˈvraicker n. one who gathers vraic.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > seaweed-gathering > seaweed-gatherer
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1835 H. D. Inglis Channel Islands 64 At half tide, or low water multitudes of carts and horses, boats and vraickers, cover the beach.
ˈvraicking n. the gathering of vraic.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > seaweed-gathering
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1835 H. D. Inglis Channel Islands 63 The vraicking parties consisting of eight, ten, or twelve persons.
1852 L. Clarke Guernsey & Jersey iii. 57 For a walk or a ride to either of these bays on a vraicing day.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. vi. 123 It is only used..during the vraicking season.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxii. 515 Vraicking in the Channel Islands is a custom that time has hallowed into an institution.
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