10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VRAICKING»
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vraicking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vraicking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
Vraicking is a dangerous employment. Fatal accidents happen almost every
season. The boats g-o to a considerable distance from the shore, and return
deeply laden. A sudden squall rises, the currents are rapid, and the unwieldy
bark is ...
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the penny magazine of the society for the duffusion of ...
Vraicking is a dangerous employment. Fatal accidents happen almost every
season. The boats go to a considerable distance from the shore, and return
deeply laden. A sudden squall rises, the currents are rapid, and the unwieldy
bark is ...
VRAICKING SEASON— LE HOCQ— ST. CLEMENT'S. Jersey being possessed
of neither Chalk, Limestone, nor Marie, finds a substitute for those manures in
seaweed composed of different species of Alga), called in the Island by the
general ...
4
The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, &c
is the vraicking season in Jersey. This season is fixed by the island legislature, —
and is named twice a year, commencing generally about the 20th July, — and the
10th March ; and continuing each time about ten days. I have already spoken ...
Henry David Inglis, Matthew Scholefield, 1834
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The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, &c: The ...
is ihe vraicking season in Jersey. This season is fixed by the island legislature, —
and is named twice a year, commencing generally about the 20th July, — and the
10th March ; and continuing each time about ten days. I have already spoken ...
6
Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Ten of the JAC interviews are taken from an oral history project about farming
and seaweed gathering or – as it is known in Jersey – vraicking.48 Three further
interviews, two of them conducted again by Arthur McGugan, come from other
oral ...
7
The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. ...
tion of vraicking. " When the vraicking season hegins, those whose families are
not numerous enough to collect the needful supply, assist each other; and the
vraicking parties, consisting of 8, l0, or l2 persons, sally forth hetimes, from all
parts ...
VRAICKING. VRAICKING 1" you will repeat; "what can 'vraicking' mean?" And
with good reason the question will ... whence, "to vraic" means "to reap the sea-
weed;" and "vraicking" is the sea-weed harvest which takes place in Jersey at set
...
9
The Home Book of Pleasure and Instruction
The seasons are two, usually from the 10th of February to the 15th of Mareh, and
from the 22nd of July to the 31st of August. When vraicking season has come,
families join, and sally forth from all arts of the island to cut the vraic from the
rocks.
the greatest weed-harvest is in Jersey and Guernsey, where the " vraicking " time
is fixed by law. A strange sight, these sturdy, brown-faced men present as, their
reaping-hook in hand, and their legs well protected by strong shields of leather, ...
