carrick

plural carricks

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of carrack.
2. nonce wordA greatcoat.

   A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") […]

   c. 1948, Vladimir Nabokov, "Lecture on The Metamorphosis" (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)

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   […] here there was little hairy Pushkin in a fur carrick, and ratlike Gogol in a flamboyant waistcoat, and old little Tolstoy with his fat nose […]

   1959, Dmitri Nabokov (translator), Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

alternative Karrick

1. A surname from Irish.
2. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
3. A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
4. A former local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fjord-like Carrick Roads estuary; it was abolished on 31 March 2009.
5. A rocky coastal district now in in South Ayrshire, Scotland and part of the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Scottish Parliament constituency and the eponymous UK Parliament constituency.

   (describing a siren seen in a group of otherwise decrepit old witches dancing) There was ae winsome wench and waulie / That night enlisted in the core, / Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore; / (For mony a beast to dead she shot, / And perish'd mony a bonie boat, ...)

   There was one beautiful and vivacious young woman / That night enlisted in the corps [of dancers] / Long remembered on the shore of Carrick / (For she had caused many large animals to slip down [the cliffs] to their deaths, / And fatally lured many good boats [onto the rocks], ...)

   1791, Robert Burns, “Tam o'Shanter”Edinburgh Magazine

6. A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
7. A locality in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
8. A Scottish earldom bestowed on the heir apparent to the reigning monarchs first of Scotland (since Robert the Bruce in 1292) and later of the United Kingdom.