sark

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“I’m thinkin’, Willie,” he began as he saw me enter—“I’m thinkin’ ye hae catched a wet sark.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert

Shark and Sharkey I take to be the same name as Sere in the Liber Vitæ, from A.S. serc, Sco. "sark," shirt, in the sense of a shirt of mail.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert

“I’se seek nae guids, gear, bond, nor mark; I use nae beddin’, shoon, nor sark; But a cogfu’ o’ brose ’tween the licht an’ the dark Is the wage o’ Aiken-drum.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

"Here is a silken sark," he said, "Thy ain hand sewed the sleeve; And ye must gae to the merry green woods,35 To Johnie Scot thy love."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

He'll burn their hooses, take their very claes, and strip them to the very sark.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)