Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6–7 Sc. wraik (6 vraik), 7 wraick. [var. of WRACK sb.2; the form may be due to the influence of the preceding word.]
1. Shipwreck; = WRACK sb.2 2.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, I. iii. heading, How that Enee wes with the tempest schaik, And how Neptune his navy saifit fra wraik.
1530. Palsgr., 290/2. Wrake of a shippe, naufraige.
2. Wreck, wreckage; = WRACK sb.2 1 b.
1544. Aberdeen Reg. (1844), I. 205. Ane schip of fyr, quhilk wes storit as vraik in hir cumin in the havyn.
1581. Sc. Acts Parlt., Jas. VI. (1814), III. 255/2. The haill wraik and wayth that sal happin to be fund … within the boundis of the saidis landis or sie cost thairoff.
1610. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 146/1. Cum lie wraik et wair, piscaria de lie yair de Avach, silvis lie scroggis et bussis.
1615. [see WAITH sb.2].
1632. Extracts Burgh Rec. Lanark (1893), 327. With furk, fork,… vert, vair, wraik, vennysone.
3. Sea-wrack; = WRACK sb.2 3.
1547. Salesbury, Welsh Dict., Brock mor, Wrake of the sea.
1597, 1657. [see SEA-OAK].
c. 1690. Kennett, in Promp. Parv. (1865), 533. Reits, sea-weed, of some … called reits, of others wrack or wraick.
4. Sc. A wrecked edifice, etc. rare–1.
c. 1625. A. Craig, in H. Bisset, Rolment (S.T.S.), I. 23. One man … consecratis religius workis to Gods: ane Other leavs sad wrakis, and Ruynis now.
