Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a shirt only; without armor.
  • noun A berserk or berserker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armour.

Etymologies

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bare +‎ sark (in sense of shirt).

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Examples

  • 'It was your advice, was it not, to make my brother baresark?'

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • At the front of the Aenir line the giant Orsa felt the baresark rage upon him.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • He fought them, learning how to go baresark at a certain point in a fight, bursting into tears of anger, reaching for rocks, uttering wailed threats of murder and attempting to fulfil them.

    Chapter 2 1918

  • He fought them, learning how to go baresark at a certain point in a fight, bursting into tears of anger, reaching for rocks, uttering wailed threats of murder and attempting to fulfil them.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • Flopit was baresark from the first, and the mystery is where he learned the dog-cursing that he did.

    Seventeen 1915

  • Coincidentally, Marjorie, quite baresark, laid hands upon the largest stick within reach and fell upon Penrod with blind fury.

    Penrod 1914

  • It was individualism baresark, amok, crazily frantic.

    The Fortunate Youth 1914

  • Coincidentally, Marjorie, quite baresark, laid hands upon the largest stick within reach and fell upon Penrod with blind fury.

    Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Flopit was baresark from the first, and the mystery is where he learned the dog-cursing that he did.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • In the bright water into which he stared, the pictures changed and were repeated: the baresark rage of Goddedaal; the blood-red light of the sunset into which they had run forth; the face of the babbling Chinaman as they cast him over; the face of the captain, seen a moment since, as he awoke from drunkenness into remorse.

    The Wrecker 1898

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