sark

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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)

‘For thou must shape a sark to me, Without any cut or heme,’ quoth he.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

"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

Then Auld Anton made straight for John Gib himself, who stood back among his circle of women, conspicuous in his white sark and with a pistol in his hand.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

They leave not spindle, spoon, nor speit, Bed, blanket, bolster, sark, nor sheet, John o’ the Park Rypes kist and ark; For all sic wark He is richt meet.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert