carrick

See also Carrick

English

Noun

carrick (plural carricks)

1. Alternative spelling of carrack.
2. (Nabokov) A greatcoat.
   • 1959, Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

     ...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...

   • Vladimir Nabokov, Lecture on The Metamorphosis (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)

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

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare Irish carraig).

Noun

carrick f.

1. rock

Derived terms

• bun-charrick