fraikn.
Scottish.
Some kind of sea-bird.
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1812 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) V. 220 Scarfs, marrots, fraiks and other seafowl hatch in the rocks.
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- wide and side
- wide area network
- wide awake
- wide awake fair
- wide ball
- wide boy
- wide brown land
- wide chord
- wide church
- wide coat
- wide from the mark
- wide game
- wide gauge
- wide of the cushion
- wide of the mark
- wide on the bow-hand
- wide on the bowhand
- wide open
- wide open spaces
- wide receiver
- wide work
- wide world
- wide-angle
- wide-angled