carrick
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== English ==
=== Etymology ===
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=== Noun ===
carrick (plural carricks)
Alternative spelling of carrack.
(nonce word) A greatcoat.
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 ====
== French ==
=== Etymology ===
The original sense was "carriage", itself adapted from English curricle.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ka.ʁik/
=== Noun ===
carrick m (plural carricks)
heavy overcoat
=== Further reading ===
“carrick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
== Manx ==
=== Etymology ===
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.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /karəkʲ/
=== Noun ===
carrick f (genitive singular carrickey, plural carrickyn)
rock, stone
fortress, fort
==== Derived terms ====
bun-charrick
=== Mutation ===