vraic
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From Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.
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vraic (uncountable)
- (Channel Islands) Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:
- There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.
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From a Germanic source; compare English wrack, Dutch wrak, German Wrack, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”).
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vraic m (uncountable)