Definition of "traffick"

traffick

verb
third-person singular simple present trafficks, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked
1. Alternative spelling of traffic (now especially of illegal goods)
  Quotations
  Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out on His Third Voyage; is taken by Pyrates. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 3–4
  If an addict-possessor who trafficks in narcotics is to be prosecuted, and if these “time to time” acts constitute “trafficking,” then the Watson majority's possession exemption “will prove nearly meaningless […]
  1970, The Catholic University law review, volume 20, page 760
  The writer is also a double agent, who trafficks in perceptions and double-deals between circumstances and possibilities, present and future.
  1982, Helen Daniel, Double agent: David Ireland and his work, page 159
  Appellant contends that the imposition of a fine is totally unauthorized as punishment for conspiracy to traffick in marijuana.
  1986, The Southeastern Reporter, page 862
  These offences include: (1) Section 129(1): this makes it an offence to traffick in persons to or from Hong Kong for the purpose of prostitution.
  2003, Michael Jackson, Criminal law in Hong Kong, page 637
noun
uncountable
1. Archaic spelling of traffic.
  Quotations
  Tho' it is evident by our histories, that in many cities in Holland great quantities of manufactures were made, when all the European traffick and navigation was mostly driven by the Easterlings and Hans-Towns, and before fishing, traffick, and freighting of ships were settled in these provinces […]
  1743, Pieter de la Court, Political Maxims of the State of Holland, page 29
  When I take a cursory survey of this great METROPOLIS and its populous ENVIRONS, I cannot help venturing a conjecture, that the sum total of its internal traffick amounts to one million a day of which the actual manufacture from raw or rough materials must arise to a considerable proportion.
  1776, James Stewart, The Total Refutation and Political Overthrow of Doctor Price
  It does, some persons tell us, do no good, while, on the other hand, it renews in our shocked sight scenes which it is not necessary for me to describe in detail, a traffick, which, for the sake of the liberty of the press, may as well be nameless here, though the reader will find it most circumstantially described in the former speeches of Mr. Grey, now Lord Howick.
  1806 December 20, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 10, page 989