troak

present singular third person troaks · participle present troaking · participle past troaked · past troaked · alternative troke

1. ScotlandTo barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.

   What's this for cash your tapster troaks, / That colics and affronts the fowks?

   1812, William Rankin, “A Friendly Hint to a Porter Brewer”, in Poems, on Different Subjects, Archibald Allardice, page 97

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   She'll not loose the letters that come to her by the King's post, and she must go on troking wi' the old carrier, as if there was no post-house in the neighbourhood.

   1823, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well, page 119

   The trade of Greenland is a strict monopoly of the Danish Government, and accordingly the Government puts a check upon any trading or fishing within a certain distance of the coast. It does not, however, prohibit the sale of small articles not used in their trade being sold, and accordingly, in addition to obtaining news of the ice and such-like other lore, here commences a curious traffic with the natives, well-known, to the Scottish whalers at least, under the name of "troaking" or bartering.

   1873 May 28, Robert Brown, “A Cruise with the Whalers in Baffin's Bay”, in Ocean Highways: The Geographical Record, volume 1, number II, N. Trübner and Co., page 51

   Synonyms: swap, swop

2. ScotlandTo carry out familiar intercourse.

   In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.

   1901, J. H. Balfour Browne, “‘Roaring Games’”, in Essays in Paradox, Longmans, Green & Co., page 152

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   But as soon as we had driven these same kings and queens into exile, we became tremendously loyal, and kept up constant trokings with the exiled at Carisbrook, in Holland, or drinking to "the king over the water."

   1904, S. R. Crockett, Raiderland: All About Grey Galloway, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 83

alternative troke

1. ScotlanduncountableBarter; exchange; truck.
2. ScotlanduncountableSmall wares.
3. ScotlanduncountableFamiliar intercourse.