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Webster 1913 Edition
Carrick
Car′rick
,Noun.
(Naut.)
A carack. See
Carack
. Carrick bend
(Naut.)
, a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes.
– Carrick bitts
(Naut.)
, the bitts which support the windlass.
Totten.
Definition 2024
Carrick
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English
Noun
carrick (plural carricks)
- Alternative spelling of carrack
- (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")...
- 1959, Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare modern Irish carraig).
Noun
carrick f (genitive singular carree)
Derived terms
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. | ||