sark

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I hadna a plack in my pouch That night I was a bride; My gown was linsey-woolsey, And ne'er a sark ava; And ye hae ribbons and buskins, Mae than ane or twa.'

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

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

"A clean thing's kindly," quo' the wife when she turned her sark after a month's wear.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Broad was her headgear, a brooch on her breast; She wore trailing sashes and a blue-dyed sark.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

Then loud, loud cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O my head it pains me sair;" "Then take, then take," the maiden said, 25 "And frae my sark you'll cut a gare."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various