An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

WRE. L. vre, chance.
Barbour.

WREAD, WREATH, s. A place for inclosing cattle, Ang.

A. S. wraeth, an inclosure. Su. G. wreit, reit, Isl. reit-r, id.

WREE, s. An instrument for cleansing grain, by separating that which is shelled from what retains the husks, Loth.;
pron. also [Ree], q. v.

To Wree, v. a. To separate shelled from unshelled grain, Loth.

To WREE, v. a. To writhe.
V. [Wry].

WREGH, s. Wretch.
S. P. Repr.

A. S. wraecca, an exile; also, a wretch.

To WREIL, WRELE, v. n. To wriggle, to turn about.
Douglas.

Perhaps merely a corr. of E. wriggle.