carrick
See also: Carrick
English
Noun
carrick (plural carricks)
- Alternative spelling of carrack
- (nonce word) 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") […]
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare modern Irish carraig).
Noun
carrick f (genitive singular carree)