sark

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"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

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

"Wash on, wash on, my bonny maid, That wash sae clean your sark of silk;" "And weel fa' you, fair gentleman, 20 Your body's whiter than the milk."

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

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

He keepit naething on but his inside sark, an' his drawers, an' a pair o' slippers, an' aff he set to rin ootby to the targets an' back.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.