Sc. Obs. [f. WRAKE v.3 + -ER1 or a. (M)LG. wraker. Cf. WRACKER2.] One who inspects goods and rejects or destroys the faulty.
1584. Sc. Acts, Jas. VI., III. (1814), 302. [To] appoint ane discrete man to be visitour, wraker [v.r. wracker], gager, and birnar of the saidis treis.
1584. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 343. Jadgeares, wrakeris, visitouris and markeris of the haill hering and quhyte fishe that sall cum within the port.
1598. in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), I. 31. Iadger burnear, or wraker of all barrellis and hogheidis of salmond and hering.