Obs. rare. Also 4 wrac, 6 Sc. wrak. [a. MLG. wrak, wrack, LG. wrak (whence G. dial. wrack worthless, Sw. vrak-, Da. vrag-), or MDu. wrac, wrak (Kilian wrack, wraeck, Du. wrak), OFris. wrak, wrac base (WFris. wrak shaky): cf. WRACK sb.3]
1. Of persons: Worthless, base, evil.
c. 1375. Kindheit Iesu, 315, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1875), 12. Bote a giw of heorte wrac Alle hise lawes þare he to brac.
2. Damaged, impaired, injured; unsound.
1487. Cely Papers (Camden), 164. iiij last heryng, iij wrack & on rooue; the wrack cost viijll & the roue ixll.
1496–7. Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905), 32. Item, a diaper clothe, wrack, content in lengthe iij yardes di.
1584. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 343. To devyde the guid and sufficient fische fra the wrak and evill.
