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- noun Scotland and Northern England A
shirt . - verb transitive To cover with
sarking , or thin boards.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So they got the name of "Berserkers," and in Scotland to this day the word "sark" is used to mean shirt.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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The sark is an omnivorous quadruped equine life-form that measures roughly 2.5 to 2.9 meters tall at the shoulder, and mature adults weigh in excess of 340 kilograms.
The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002
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The sark is an omnivorous quadruped equine life-form that measures roughly 2.5 to 2.9 meters tall at the shoulder, and mature adults weigh in excess of 340 kilograms.
The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002
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The sark is an omnivorous quadruped equine life-form that measures roughly 2.5 to 2.9 meters tall at the shoulder, and mature adults weigh in excess of 340 kilograms.
The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002
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The sark is an omnivorous quadruped equine life-form that measures roughly 2.5 to 2.9 meters tall at the shoulder, and mature adults weigh in excess of 340 kilograms.
The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002
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His grandfather was a Berserker; for whether that name be derived, as is more generally supposed, from bare-sark, -- or rather from bear-sark, that is, whether this grisly specimen of the
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Berserker; for whether that name be derived, as is more generally supposed, from bare-sark, -- or rather from bear-sark, that is, whether this grisly specimen of the Viking genus fought in his shirt or his bearskin, the name equally lends itself to those mystifications from which half the old legends, whether of Greece or Norway, are derived.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In the pure breed there is not the slightest vestige of a tail, and in the case of any intermixture with the species possessing the usual caudal appendage, the tail of their offspring, like the witch's "sark," as recorded by honest Tam o '
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She wore a kind of sark of shadowy black veil, sewn over with sparkling bits of gem.
Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell
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We Blog A Lot 2009
hernesheir commented on the word sark
(n): a chemise or shirt.
January 6, 2009
yarb commented on the word sark
At nights in hail and snow
with naught but open beach
to lay down upon in order
to procure a little rest -
oftentimes having to pull off
the few rags I was wearing,
it being impossible
to sleep with them on for the vermin
as by that time swarmed about them;
albeit, I often removed
my sark and, laying it down
on a boulder, beat it hard
with an huge stone, hoping to slay
an hundred of them at once,
for it were an endless work
to pick them off one by one.
- Peter Reading, Ukulele Music, 1985
May 30, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sark
"'Well, what d'ye think? Does he look as nice out of his sark as he does in it?'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 445
January 1, 2010