Carrick

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
  4. 4
    A former local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fjord-like Carrick Roads estuary; it was abolished on 31 March 2009.
  5. 5
    A rocky coastal district now in in South Ayrshire, Scotland and part of the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Scottish Parliament constituency and the eponymous UK Parliament constituency.

    "(describing a siren seen in a group of otherwise decrepit old witches dancing) There was ae winsome wench and waulie / That night enlisted in the core, / Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore; / (For mony a beast to dead she shot, / And perish'd mony a bonie boat, ...)"

Show 3 more definitions
  1. 6
    A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. 7
    A locality in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
  3. 8
    A Scottish earldom bestowed on the heir apparent to the reigning monarchs first of Scotland (since Robert the Bruce in 1292) and later of the United Kingdom.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of carrack. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A greatcoat. nonce-word

    "[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

Anglicised version of Irish carraig, Scottish Gaelic carraig or Cornish karrek, all meaning rock. Doublet of Craig.

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: carrick