vraicker
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vraicker (plural vraickers)
- One who gathers vraic.
- Synonym: vraicqueur
- 1844, Henry David Inglis, The Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Serk, Herm & Jethou:
- The carts proceed as far as the tide will allow them; and boats, containing four or six persons, carry the vraickers to those more distant rocks, which are unapproachable in any other way.