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Definition of Troaking
1. Noun. The extralegal trade between Greenlandic natives and Scottish whalers during the period 1814-1940 ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of troak) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Troaking
1. troak [v] - See also: troak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troaking
Literary usage of Troaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... Aud stands in presence »troaking up his hayre ; ADÜ hiles up his unperfect
speech with oathes, But speak.es not une wise word throughout the But to ..."
2. The New Novelist's Magazine, Or Entertaining Library of Pleasing and (1787)
"... while the good old man, (troaking Loui- i'on's head with one hand, and the
other locked in the hands of ..."
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