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LARICK, n. Also larrick, laurick; lairack, -ick, lerrick. The larch tree, Larix europaea, or its wood (Per., Fif., Ayr. 1915–26 Wilson; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Bwk. 1942 Wettstein; n. and em.Sc., Dmf. 1960). Also attrib. Comb. foggy-larrick, moss-grown larch bark, smoked by boys as a substitute for tobacco. [′lɑrɪk, ′ler-]Bnff. 1798 W. Cramond Ch. Grange 125:
The treasurer was appointed to purchase an hundred ash, elm, beech, and larricks plants of the most proper age and size for planting.Rxb. 1805 A. Scott Poems 197:
A planting beskirted the spot Where pilches [pitches] an' laricks were seen.Ags. 1868 G. Webster Strathbrachan 56:
How mony inches diameter would ye think the Laurick is that's in the East Den?Abd. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie xxxiii.:
I catched it i' the brainches o' a lairick.e.Lth. 1889 J. Lumsden Lays Linton 199:
This is the Old Bore Stone. Into this was inserted, on the morning of June 24th, 1314, the great lerrick tree flagstaff.Per. 1903 H. Dryerre Blairgowrie 101:
Whan the snaw cleared aff, I cam' across them [sheep] under some laich larick branches.ne.Sc. 1929 M. W. Simpson Day's End 20:
Amang the larick-boughs the slow rains dreep, (Ah, weel I min' Hoo bonnie were the laricks, lad, langsyne!).Bnff. 1954 Banffshire Jnl. (23 Nov.):
We'll hae tae gyang back tae smokin' foggy-larrick as we eest tae dee fin we wis loons.Abd. 2000 Sheena Blackhall The Singing Bird 35:
The hoose in the wid is framed bi larick an fir,
Aneth a boorach o pearlie clood, frost-fu