† ˈwraker 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. |