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wreckling
ˈwreckling Now dial. [var. of reckling. Cf. wregling.] A weak, puny, or dwarfish animal (or plant); spec. the smallest and weakest of a litter.1601 Holland Pliny I. 530 It causeth it [sc. the vine] to seeme scortched and full of knots, yea and to grow like a dwarfe or wreckling. 1607 Markham Cavel. ...
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wregling
† ˈwregling Sc. Obs. = wreckling.1679 in Wodrow Ch. Hist. (1828) IV. 501 What through grace he will make such a weak wregling able to endure.
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wragland
† wragland Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin. Perh. merely a var. of the erroneous form wranglan(d) cited s.v. wranlons; but cf. wraggle v.1] 1. (See quot. and cf. wranlons.)1611 Cotgr., Raboudris, wraglands; crooked, or misgrowne trees which will neuer proue timber. 2. (See quot. and cf. wreckling.)161...
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wrig
▪ I. † wrig, n.1 Obs.—1 [Cf. werg.] The willow-tree.1564 Brasenose Coll. Munim. 19 (Berks.), [The tenant may take] boowes of the wrigges to make stakes..for the mentayning of the mowndes.▪ II. wrig, n.2 Sc. (rɪg) [Cf. wregling, wreckling.] The smallest or weakest of a litter, brood, or family.1805 G...
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