carrick

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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") […]

• carrick bend

The original sense was "carriage," itself adapted from English curricle.

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carrick m (plural carricks)

1. heavy overcoat

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

From Middle Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”), borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *karreg, from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”). Cognate with Irish carraig and Scottish Gaelic carraig.

• IPA^(key): /karəkʲ/

carrick f (genitive singular carrickey, plural carrickyn)

1. rock, stone
2. fortress, fort

• bun-charrick