sark

name

1. One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
2. A minor river in Dumfries and Galloway council area and Cumbria, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, which flows into the tidal Esk at Gretna; in full, the River Sark.

   “I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; […].”

noun

1. (Northern-England, Scotland)A shirt or smock.

   “The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.”

   “Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.”

verb

1. (transitive)To cover with sarking, or thin boards.