Obs. Also 7 vrack. [F. dial. (Channel Islands).] The name given in the Channel Islands to a fish resembling a carp. Also attrib.
1673. News from Channel, in Harl. Misc. (1809), III. 505. A large fish we call a Vrack-fish.
1694. Falle, Jersey, ii. 75. But the most common, and to be had at all times, is a Fish we call Vrac, in shape and taste very much like a Carp, and may be called the Sea-carp, with several others.
1742. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), III. 341. Here [in Jersey] is the Mullet, red and grey, the Vrac, or Sea-carp, and the Bar.
