Sark Definition

särk
noun
A shirt or chemise.
Webster's New World

(Scotland and Northern England) A shirt.

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verb
To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
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pronoun
One of the Channel Islands.
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Other Word Forms of Sark

Noun

Singular:
Sark
Plural:
sarks

Origin of Sark

  • From Middle English sark, serk, serke, from Old English syrce, sirce, serce (“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail"), from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (“shirt, armour, hauberk"), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg-, *swerk- (“clothes worn outside"), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to arrange, tack, tie, unite"). Cognate with Scots sark, serk (“shirt, shift"), North Frisian serk (“shirt"), Danish særk (“gown, shirt"), Swedish särk (“shirt, chemise"), Icelandic serkur (“nightshirt").

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Sark Sentence Examples

  • I gaed tae the claes shoap tae buy a strippit sark, I wis tryin it on when the haill place gaed dark.

  • On the English side the region is watered by the Till, Bowmont, Coquet, Rede and North Tyne; on the Scottish by the Tweed, Whiteadder, Leet, Kale, Jed, Kershope, Liddel, Esk and Sark.

  • Another delight for your eyes is the world's last surviving tea clipper, Cutty Sark.

  • The most famous tea clipper of all time was the Cutty Sark built in Britain in 1869.

  • After the lecture Richard took course participants on a tour of the " Cutty Sark " to view its large collection of merchant figureheads.

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Words Starting With

SSASAR

Words Ending With

KRKARK

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