sark

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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.

Chemise, she-mēz′, n. a woman's shirt or sark, a smock or shift.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

At the hinder end he got a clearness in his mind, sat up in his sark on the bed-side, an’ fell thinkin’ ance mair o’ the black man an’ Janet.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

“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