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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Traik, v. Also: traick. P.p. also trakit. [? Sw. tråka to rub on, drudge, Norw. tråka to struggle against, tråkes to become exhausted.] intr. To be or become sick, worn out or exhausted. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 118.
Bot now in winter for purteth thow art traikit
1535 Stewart 13226.
Ane seiknes that is into the heid, Without the soner that it get remeid … The memberis all will rycht sone tyne and traik
1561–2 Reg. Privy C. I 200.
Be the tempestuous stormys … the hale gudis ar sa trakit, smorit, and deid, that the prices of the flesche ar rissin
1576 Crim. Trials I ii 52.
Our geir is trakit and my husband is on the point of deid and ane babie of my own will nocht leve … Thom said ‘ … thy barne sall die and the seik kow … thy twa scheip sall de to: bot thy husband sall mend'
1596 Misc. Spald. C. I 95.
That thow suld gar bayth hir and hir guidman be handschairp in thair geir, and suld newir haue frie geir tofoir. Sen the quhilk tyme, thair haill geir traikit
1639 Baillie I 202.
Manie of them died and when they went home, the most part of all who remained traicked pitifullie
1661 Soc. Ant. XXII 254.
The rest wer sore traiked

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