Sc. Obs. Also 7 wraik. [a. (M)LG. wrâken (whence Sw. vraka, Da. vrage), older Du. wraaken, Du. wraken, older Flem. wraecken (Kilian), to reject, etc. Cf. WRACK v.3] trans. To examine (goods, etc.) with a view to rejecting or destroying the unsound, faulty or damaged. Hence Wraking vbl. sb.
1584. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 343. All the heiring and quhyte fische that sall cum within the said port … to be strukin vp, visitet and wraket.
1599. in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), II. 60. Anent the office of jedgerie wraking and burneing of all loghedis and barrellis of herings. Ibid. (1609), 284. Nane to be transportit furth of the realm quhill thai [sc. herring-barrels] be packit, wraikit and merkett as followis.
