troak

To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.

What's this for cash your tapster troaks, / That colics and affronts the fowks?

She'll not loose the letters that come to her by the King's post, and she must go on troking wi' the old carrier, as if there was no post-house in the neighbourhood.

To carry out familiar intercourse.

In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.

But as soon as we had driven these same kings and queens into exile, we became tremendously loyal, and kept up constant trokings with the exiled at Carisbrook, in Holland, or drinking to "the king over the water."

Barter; exchange; truck.

Small wares.

Familiar intercourse.