carrick

See also: Carrick

English

Etymology

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Noun

carrick (plural carricks)

1. Alternative spelling of carrack
2. (nonce word) A greatcoat.
   • 1959, Dmitri Nabokov (translator), 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 […]

   • c. 1948, 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") […]

Derived terms

• carrick bend

Translations

(nonce word) greatcoat

• Russian: please add this translation if you can

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

carrick m (plural carricks)

1. heavy overcoat

Further reading

• “carrick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

1. rock

Derived terms

• bun-charrick

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
carrick	charrick	garrick
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish carraig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾɪk/

Noun

carrick

1. rock

   Synonym: ruck

   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.

     “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

Derived terms

• Carrick-a-Shinna
• Carrick-a-Dee
• Carrick-a-Foyle

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2