Sc. Obs. Also wraik(e. [var. of WRACK v.2 Cf. WRAKE sb.2]
1. trans. To bring (a person) to rain; = WRACK v.2 3. Also refl.
1577. Satir. Poems Reform., xxviii. 141. And scho wer wrakit, all the warld may wene, Than sould the Duke but dout ressaif ye croun.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 71. They thocht no thing better nor to wraike them and that witht extreme weiris.
1599. Alex. Hume, Poems (S.T.S.), 41. The Lord the wicked wraikes.
1603. Philotus, liii. Quhome haue ȝe wraikit bot ȝour awin.
1621. [see WRACK v.2 3, quot. 1567].
b. To subvert or overthrow.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xii. 74. Apperandly thir plaigis ar powrit out To wraik this warld, and wait ȝe quhair about? Ibid. (1574), xlii. 447. Quhen the Kirk sa ȝe haue wrakit, Ȝit all the Kirkis sall not be stakit.
a. 1614. J. Melvill, Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 246. The presuming … of the cheiff corrupt members … had vitiat and wrakit the esteat of the Kirk.
2. To hurt, harm or injure severely; to damage, wreck or ruin materially.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxiv. 8. Quhair furious Fleming schot his Ordinance, Willing to wraik him wantit na gude will.
1578. Sc. Acts, Jas. VI. (1814), III. 113/2. Sum of thair housiss wyiffis and bairnis being thairin wer alluterlie wraikit and brount.
1596. in Spalding Club Misc. (1841), I. 88. His haill geir surmounting to mair nor thrie thowsand lib. … ar altogidder wrakit and away.
1607. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 295. Dumbartane … is liklie to be wrakit be the inundatioun of the watter of Clyde.
1692. in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1880), IV. 595. Ane bush … named the Generall, was wraked in this harbour.
3. intr. = WRACK v.2 4. rare–1.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xii. 67. I dout not, in our dayis, Hepburnis will wraik for wyrrying of the King.
Hence † Wraking vbl. sb. Obs.
1569. Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.), 147. The wraiking of James erle of Mortoun and his assistaris.
