What is "affrays"

Usage examples of "affrays".

As is our custom, we will trade with whomever comes to the quayside and treat with them, but our dwelling place is the bosom of the deeps and we are loath to entangle ourselves and lose Mariner lives in the affrays of landsmen.

Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.