traik
Americanverb (used without object)
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to become ill or lose one's good health.
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to stroll, wander, or stray.
Etymology
Origin of traik
First recorded in 1500–10; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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She must have been an ancestor of mine: 96 For she’d traik any distance for a crack, The gipsy-hearted ganwife that she was.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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