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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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†WRACKER, n. An inspector of goods employed to reject unsound or faulty wares.Sc. 1719 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1885) 217:
By means of wrackers of herrings to be imported there [Hamburg]. . . . Ane overseer of these wrackers.
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