DSL - DOST   Sark, Serk, n. Also: sarke, shark; sairk; syrk.  [North. and midl. ME serc (Cursor M.), serke (Manning), scherk (14th c.), late ME sarke (c1440), north. e.m.E. sark (1515), OE serc, ON serk-r. Also in mod. Sc., as sark, serk, and in mod. north. Eng. dial., as sark.]
    For further examples see the Indexes to the various volumes of Treas. Acc. s.v. Shirt(s).
    1. The male or female body-garment worn nearest the skin; a shift, chemise, shirt. Also fig. (1)  Al nakit, bot sark & breke; Leg. S. xl 1080.  Buft brawlit hois, coit, dowblet, sark, and scho; 1572 Sat. P. xxxiii 369. (b)  In serk and mantill eftir hir I went In to this garth; Dunb. (OUP) 142/46.  Thoght I haif cair undir cloke the cleir day quhill nyght, 3it haif I solace undir serk quhill the sone ryse; Id. Tua Mar. W. 471. (2) indef. art.  A wennomus sark; Asl. MS I 317/7.  I se him want ane sark [: clerk, bark, merk]; Dunb. Flyt. 223.  Compl. 80/27.  Ane gud new sark; Wyf Awcht. 43.  The forme of it ... wes lyke ane litill bodie ... cled in quhyt lening lyk a sark; 1601 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 184.  The said Margaret ... ressaueit for waigeis, ane sark and ane pair schone; 1623 Perth Kirk S. MS 14 May.  Ane cassine sark worth xij s.; 1643 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 703. (b)  A doublat and a serk; 1483 Acta Aud. *112/1. (c)  To ... pay James Cryus vij s. of siluer & ane syrk; 1536 Linlithgow B. Ct. 13 Nov.  Ane bonet ane syrk; 1562 Carte Northberwic 86. pl.  Sewine sarkis schene He gert lay a-pone the grene; Leg. S. xx 240.  Find me ane dog ... Hes maid sa mony bludie sarkis; Lynd. Compl. Bagsche 88.  Where are ye commanded to dissagyse your selues lyke players ... with shauen crownes, long wide sarkes aboue your clothing [etc.]; Ferg. Answer in Tracts 20.  In the ministers ... we thinke ... vnseimlie ... all kynd of ... variant hews in sarks ... as red, blew, 3eallow; 1575 Bk. Univ. Kirk I 335.  [To] buy ane sutte of cloathes, ... also sailing cloathe as well four sarkes to him; 1650 J. M. Beale Fife Schools 143. (b)  For unbleichit claith to be serks to the lard; 1652 Caldwell P. 106. (3) def. art.  Withtout al clathis bot the sark, quhilk al was brynt the sleiffis except; 1577 St. A. Kirk S. 424.  [He] was constranit ... to mak calffing to his boit of the sark was on his bak; 1580 Inverness Rec. I 281.  Luiking at the breist of the sark he tauld that the seiknes was nocht cum as 3it to his heart; 1623 Crim. Trials III 556. (b)  Serk; Henr. Bludy Serk 81.  Hercules ... was ... slane be his lady Dyonera throw the inuennomyt serk scho maid him to weir; Myll Spect. 278/17. pl.  Othyre thir serkis tak 3e lo And [etc.]; Leg. S. xx 244. (4) possess.  Hir sark suld be hir body nixt, ... Hir kirtill suld be [etc.] ... , Hir gown suld be [etc.]; Henr. Garmont 9.  Vnlusum was his likame dicht, His sark was all bludy; Id. Bludy Serk 62.  In haist his weid off castis he: ... Held on his sark, ... and syn lap in the flud; Wall. ix 1181.  To Luke of the wardrop to feche Sanct Margaretis sark to the quene; 1511-12 Treas. Acc. IV 334.  On fut I sprent into my bair sark; Doug. xii Prol. 269.  Your cord and lowsie coit and sark; a1540 Glencairn in Knox I 74.  And thairefter riffing of his flesch, clays and sark; 1542 Elgin Rec. I 70.  Of 3allow taftais wes hir sark, Begaryit all with browderit wark; Lynd. Meldrum 125.  Furth scho did hir marke In treases with hir kirtill and hir sarke; Clar. iii 484.  Sawis seindill saffroun in sawt for thair sarkis saik; Montg. Bann. MS 163a/8.  Thay gloir in thair weill ruffit sark [: wark]; Maitl. F. clxxviii 88.  Ane man ... come to hir with ane bairnis sark to be charmt; 1617 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. VIII 346.  Efter that tuik the watter with the bairnes sark ... and kaist baith in the burne; 1623 Perth Kirk S. MS 16 May.  She got up in her sark and said, ... do not come near me for I'm naked; Presb. Eloq. (1693) 102. (b)  King Robert Brucis serk; 1488 Treas. Acc. I 83.  Gudis of ayrschip ... his hat, his bonet, his best serk; 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 144.  [He] cast ane nicht gowne ouer his serk, and as he was half nakit ran to her in haist; Buch. Detect. (1727) 4. (c)  As his bludie sairk beiris witnes; 1584 Reg. Privy C. III 708. pl.  Ye gaif twa fair cleane sarkis of your husbandis ... to be inchantit be thame; 1591 Crim. Trials I ii 250.  To change thair wyfis ... as oft almaist as thay do thair sarkis; Hamilton Facile Tr. 435. (5) proverb.  (see KIRTIL(L n. 2 (1) (c)). (6) fig.  Sone thai wald denude thame of sark of symony and restore the frut of sic benefice; Abell 16b.
    b. With defining terms specifying a function, type of material, place of origin, etc.
    For some further examples, see HARDIN n. and adj. 2 (2), LININ adj. and n. B 3 (b), LOSIN(G n. 4 a, and LOSINIT adj. (1)  Ane gray bonat, ane nicht courchre and hus sark; 1521 Stirling B. Rec. I 13.  For x elnis of claith for nycht sarkis to the kingis grace; 1522 Treas. Acc. V 193.  Lynyng claith to be ryding sarkis; 1544 Ib. VIII 292.  [To provide the apprentice with] ane new per of shone with ane straiking serk; 1643 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 100. (2)  My steming sark & rokket was laid doun; 1571 Sempill Sat. P. xxviii 69.  With linnen sarke, and no more was she cledde; Pope's New-Year Gift.  Ane yellow wollin shark; 1649 Bk. Dunvegan 122.  When the hair sarkes war put wpon the wyfes [sc. witches] in the touboth; 1650 Dumfries Treas. Acc.  Ane syd Holland cloth sark; Spalding II 388. (3)  [A] noble seme was on his sark of Rence [sc. Rennes]; Rolland Ct. Venus i 127.  Ane hieland syd serk of yallow lyning pasmentit with purpour silk and silver; 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 215.
    c. (In) sark alane (alone), wearing only a `sark'.
    Freq. as a penitential form of dress.  He to cum on Sounday with ane walx candill in sark alane and ask the provest forgevenis; 1504 Edinb. B. Rec. I 100.  The sayd Schir James sall cum sarkallane to the mercat croce ... and than sall offer ane nakyit schowrd ... to the sayd Erle of Lennox; 1530-1 Maxwell Mem. I 261.  He ... sark allane, for mair mereit and meid, And barfeit als to Canterberrie 3eid; Stewart 43396.  Thai ordane the said Besse ... to gang sark alane afore the processioun vith ane vax candill in hir hand of ane pound to be offerit to the haly blud lycht; 1538 Aberd. B. Rec. I 155.  Sayand the said Margarat Baffour vas ane huyr and ane wyche and that sche 3eid widersonnis about mennis hous sark alane and hir hayr abone hir eyne for wyche craft; 1545 Elgin Rec. I 84.  1548 Aberd. B. Rec. I 258.  1551 Cupar B. Rec. 1 June.  [The bailies] decernit that ... he sall come to the mercat cross sark alane, his head discoverit, and, upon his knees, tak his whinger be the point and deliver the same to John; 1563-4 Old Dundee II 358.  1566 Prestwick B. Rec. 70.  His barneman being threscheand and laubourand sark allane, he crewellie invadit him; 1566 Reg. Privy C. I 460.  According to hir [sc. Queen Mary's] comandment [he] past to hir chalmer sark alane onlie coverit with his nycht gowne; Buch. Indict. 34.  Cheissit him sark alane and naikit, fra the said hous; 1594 Misc. Spald. C. II 123.  1608 Perth Hammermen xxxvi.  The minister, who wes lying sleiping in his bed, ... rais, sark allane, and preast to have relevit the said Jonnet; 1616 Reg. Privy C. X 488.  That scho saw theme naikit sark alone in the said Elspeth bed; 1622 Perth Kirk S. MS 21 Oct.  1628 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 236.  He went out and stayit the space of ane hour or mair sark allone; 1633 Orkney Bp. Ct. MS 87.
    d. Attrib. (also possess.) with collar, hand, etc.; and comb. with cote, and, in pl., washar.
    Also SARK-WYLYCOTE n. attrib. (possess.)  iij boltis of Parys rubanis ... for sark collaris and handis; 1538-9 Treas. Acc. VII 144.  Small linning to band the ... sarkis and sarkhandis; 1599 Ib. MS. ---  Scho fischit all the Span3e seis With hir sark lape befor hir theis; Crying of Play 70.  And that the crook hand took his sark lap and hinderd him that he took not that woman; 1673 Kingarth Par. Rec. 87. ---  xv sark nekkis price xxj s.; 1575 Edinb. Test. III 328b.  I leue to Walter my bruther ... sex of my best sark neckis and alsmony sark handis; 1582 Ib. XI 33b.  He then presented himself to the heading-stock, his eyes being covered with a napekine ... , his sark neck removed be him and doublet neck laid doun over from his shoulders; 1584 Misc. Bann. C. I 105.  Certane sarkis neckis, and schone; 1594 Misc. Spald. C. II 127.  His halie day claythtis as hat cloik breikis hors doublet sark schone sark nekis with al thingis belangand thairto; 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII 236. ---  Ane packet of sairkis slevis and hois for thame [sc. dolls]; 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 238.  Tua auld sarksleiffis; 1615 Reg. Privy S. MS 21 Nov.  Ane combing cloath and ane pair of lining serk sleivs; 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIV 52. comb.  Quhils the erle Bothuel was in Italy his sarks washar sayd ... that he to quhome belonged these sarks ... suld be beheded by his prence; 1591 Warrender P. II 161.  Fyne small plaiding to be his sark coittis; 1600 Treas. Acc. MS 68b.
    2. = SARKING vbl. n.2 2.  For ... the fluringis of the gret turngres heid the heid and tymmer prik ruiff and sark of the samyn; 1539-41 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 281.


 DSL - DOST   Sark, v.  [Back-formation f. SARKING vbl. n.2: cf. also late north. ME (once) serked p.p. (gl. camisiatus, jnterulatus) (Cath. Angl.), and SARK n. 2.] tr. To furnish (a building or a roof) with sarking (SARKING vbl. n.2 2).  The capitanis hall quhilk is presentlie theikit with leid and is sarkit abone with deillis; 1583 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 312.  And the haill tymer work of the heid of the said towr to be tirrit, mendit, new sarkit and thickit againe ... ; ... the haill liberarie to be tirrit [etc.] ... , new sarkit with daillis and of new theikit againe; 1623 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 283.  To caus repair the samen [roof] ... and to sark the samen swa far as is repaired; 1646 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 93.  In [pr. is] respect that the kirk was only sarked as yet; 1657 Cramond Ch. Urquhart 38.  1664 Glasgow B. Rec. III 31.  1668 Old Ross-shire I 192.  The south quarter A third part of it is rooffed and sarked redie for the lead and slaite; 1674 Mylne Master Masons 187.  1677 Inverness Rec. II 275.  1689 Edinb. B. Rec. XII 10.

 DSL - SND1   SARK, n., v. Also serk (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Dim. sarket, -it. [sark; em.Sc.(a), s.Sc. serk]     I. n. 1. A man's shirt (Sc. 1755 S. Johnson Dict., 1808 Jam.). Gen.Sc., also in n.Eng. dial. Also attrib. Adj. ¶sarken, belonging to a shirt.
    *Ayr. 1702 Arch. and Hist. Coll. Ayr. & Wgt. IV. 202:
    With the half of his bountess, viz., of ane pair of hose, shoes, and sark.
    *Sc. 1715 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 68:
    Some did their Sark Tails wring.
    *Fif. 1761 E. Henderson Annals Dunfermline (1879) 476:
    I sent you a linen Serk.
    *Ayr. 1795 Burns Lass that made the Bed vii.:
    She took her mither's holland sheets, An' made them a' in sarks to me.
    *Dmf. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun 11:
    Turning coats, and mending breeks, New-seating where the sark-tail keeks.
    *Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian iv.:
    Our gentles will hardly allow that a Scots needle can sew ruffles on a sark.
    *Gsw. 1856 ``Young Glasgow'' Deil's Hallowe'en 43:
    There Venus dipped, wi' lauchin' glee, Her sarken sleeve o' Poesy.
    *Hdg. 1876 J. Teenan Song 3:
    Darnin' my stockins or shooin' my serk.
    *Ags. 1889 Barrie W. in Thrums xix.:
    To warm his sark at the fire afore he put it on.
    *Lnk. 1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 29:
    ``The button'', said he, ``has come off the neck o' my serk''.
    *Ork. 1920 J. Firth Reminisc. 63:
    The men . . . threw off both coat and waistcoat and ``tripped it'' in their ``sark sleeves''.
    *Abd. 1923 R. L. Cassie Heid or Hert iv.:
    They jist lie i' their sark-sleeves an' dicht the swyte fae their faces.
    *Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 11:
    Ma serk was drackeet wui weet till it stack ti ma verra back.
    *Slg. 1929 Scotch Readings (Paterson) 8:
    A man doesna change his hale natur ilka time he pits on a new sark.
    *Bwk. 1947 W. L. Ferguson Makar's Medley 38:
    Auld carls in flannel serks are roastin'.
    Dim. sarket, -it, an undershirt, a woollen vest (Abd. 1904 W. Farquhar Fyvie Lintie 38; Bnff., Abd. 1969); ``a kind of short skirt, or blouse'' (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 147). This last is phs. due to a confusion with SURCOAT, q.v.
    *Slg. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 111:
    At that time men cou'd gang to market, Wi' plaiding hose, and straiken sarket.
    *Bnff. 1907 Banffshire Jnl. (13 Oct. 1953):
    Hose an' drawers an' sarkets.
    *Abd. 1916 G. Abel Wylins 81:
    Packin' up my sarks an' sarkits.
    *Bnff. 1959 Banffshire Jnl. (14 April) 8:
    Ma jersey an' ma sarket.
    +2. In reference to church practice or discipline: a surplice, also in phr. ¶sark of God; a penitential shirt.
    *Sc. 1724 Ramsay T.-T. Misc. (1876) I. 137:
    Jockey shall wear the hood, Jenny the sark of God.
    *Abd. 1733 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd (1765) 39:
    He'll get the dud and Sacken gown, That ugly Sark.
    *s.Sc. 1809 T. Donaldson Poems 160:
    Ye'll ask yon man i' Haly sark, I mean the priest.
    *Sc. 1817 Scott Rob Roy xvii.:
    The curate linking awa at it in his white sark.
    *Kcd. 1894 Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet xvi.:
    Wi' a lang white serk on, an' a can'le i' their hands.
    3. A woman's shift or chemise (Per. 1915 Wilson L. Strathearn 205). Gen.Sc., obsol. Also attrib.
    *Sc. 1721 J. Kelly Proverbs 139:
    He was wrap'd in his Mother's Sark Tail. The Scots have a superstitious Custom of receiving a Child, when it comes to the World, in its Mother's Shift, if a Male; believing that this Usage will make him wellbeloved among Women.
    *Ayr. 1790 Burns Tam o' Shanter 149-50:
    [She] coost her duddies on the wark, And linket at it in her sark!
    *Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 131:
    Up hurry-scurry in her sark She spangit for her daily dark.
    *Ags. 1846 A. Laing Wayside Flowers 104:
    As they gaed out to dip their sark, Twa brankin' chiel's cam' in the gaet.
    *Sh. 1898 Shetland News (8 Jan.):
    Dey're been naur dy cot `at stüle dy sark.
    *Dmf. 1928 Scots Mag. (July) 263:
    That wife o' his rinnin' doon the Raw in her serk tail, and him efter her wi' an axe.
    *Fif. 1964 R. Bonnar Stewartie 2. viii.:
    They'll better keep their sarks weel doon when John G.'s near them.
    *Bnff. 1968 Banffshire Jnl. (6 Feb.) 4:
    Her fine cotton sark with the lace and herring-bone stitchery.
    4. Special Combs.: (1) sark-alane, in one's shirt or shift; (2) sarkfu, a shirtful, in phrs. a sarkfu o idleness, a lazy person (Sh. 1969), a sarkfu o sair (+-wrought) banes, of a person stiff and sore from hard labour or from a beating (Sc. 1825 Jam.; +ne.Sc., Ags., Per., Ayr. 1969), gen. in threats; +(3) sarkless, without a shirt or shift (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 266; Cai. 1904 E.D.D.). Gen.Sc.; (4) sark-neck, a shirt-collar-band. Gen.Sc.; (5) wooden sark, a coffin.
    (1) *m.Lth. 1786 G. Robertson Har'st Rig (1801) cxiii.:
    Auld Seonet comes in sark alane.
    *Ayr. 1879 R. Adamson Lays 122:
    He caresna for a steek o' claes, For sark-alane he tak's the road.
    *Abd. 1920 G. P. Dunbar Peat Reek 45:
    [He] huntit squirrels, sark aleen, as swuppert as the win'.
    (2) *Sc. 1721 J. Kelly Proverbs 396:
    I'll give you a Sarkful of sore Bones.
    *Sc. 1815 Scott Guy M. xlv.:
    Ye shall hae the best sark-fu o' sair banes that ever ye had in your life.
    *Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr. Duguid 21:
    A sarkfu' o' sair banes for the sins of ilka meenont of the day.
    *m.Lth. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick i.:
    Mony's the nicht I brocht a sark-fu' o' sair banes hame wi' me.
    *Bnff. 1923 Banffshire Jnl. (24 July) 2:
    Geordie saved `imsel a sarkfu' o' sair benes b' rinnin' awa'.
    (3) *Edb. 1773 Fergusson Poems (S.T.S.) II. 212:
    Langsyne you ha'e been blyth to pack Your a' upon a sarkless soldier's back.
    *Dmf. 1810 R. H. Cromek Remains 95:
    But we drank the gude brown hawkie dry, An' sarkless hame came Kimmer an' I.
    *Gsw. 1863 J. Young Ingle Nook 14:
    Na, na, she'd ten times rather tak Her Tammie wi' a sarkless back.
    *Bnff. 1909 Banffshire Jnl. (29 Dec.) 3:
    Hame lads gang wi' sarkless skins.
    *Sc. 1926 Scots Mag. (Dec.) 227:
    Guid fa' that sarkless loon.
    (4) *Ayr. 1786 Burns Earnest Cry x.:
    There's some sark-necks I wad draw tight.
    *Abd. 1826 D. Anderson Poems 98:
    Stiff sark-necks up to their ears.
    *Ags. 1893 F. Mackenzie Cruisie Sk. xiii.:
    Dinna hing on to my sark-neck.
    (5) *Dmf. 1823 J. Kennedy Poems 69:
    Yet after a' this frugal wark, It pinch'dly coft a wooden sark.
    5. The black membrane that lines the inside of the belly of a fish (Ork. 1929 Marw.).
    II. v. 1. To clothe in or provide with a shirt. Gen. in ppl.adj. sarkit (Sc. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems Gl.). Vbl.n. sarkin, serken, -in, shirting, material for making shirts (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Sh., Bnff., Abd., Ags., Per., w.Lth., Ayr. 1969). Also attrib.
    *Rxb. 1711-25 J. J. Vernon Hawick(1900) 78:
    5 yards serken to deceased James Glasgow.
    *Sc. 1736 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) III. 239:
    Sarking lint, or claithing fleece.
    *Abd. 1768 A. Ross Works (S.T.S.) 141:
    But how I was sarked, foul fa' them that speers!
    *Ayr. 1786 Burns Vision I. v.:
    Half-mad, half-fed, half-sarkit.
    *Kcb. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 15:
    Underneath weel sarkit Wi' harn that day.
    *Bwk. 1823 A. Hewit Poems 102:
    Plenty sarkin' light an' leal, O' Ellan's spinnin'.
    *Sc. 1832 Chambers's Jnl. (Feb.) 27:
    The meal pock was made of sarken cloth.
    *Lnk. 1835 W. Watt Poems (1860) 89:
    She could wed Willie Speedyspool the sarkin weaver.
    *Gsw. 1863 J. Young Ingle Nook 25:
    At the least, ae' wab o' harn, The guidman an' yersel' to sark.
    *Abd. 1924 Swatches o' Hamespun 71:
    Te fess oot wi' her some chaip wincey an' sarkin.
    *Arg. 1939 I. Malcolm Songs o' Clachan 26:
    Guisers were we that braw night, Capped in colours, sarked in white.
    2. To cover the rafters of a roof with wooden boards, to line a roof with wood for the slates to be nailed on, gen. in vbl.n. sarkin(g), serkin, roof boarding (Sc. 1808 Jam., 1952 Builder (20 June) 943.) Gen.Sc. and n.Eng. dial. Also attrib. as in sarking board, nail, seam, etc. Used also of roofing felt (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.).
    *m.Lth. 1700 Cramond Session Rec. MS. (6 Dec.):
    Sarkeing and sklatteing the kirk.
    *Lnk. 1712 Burgh Rec. Lnk. (1893) 285:
    A parcell of old daills that were the old serkin of the kirk.
    *Ayr. 1738 Ayr Presb. Reg. MS. (1 Nov.) 177:
    Three hundred sarking nails at Seven pence half penny per hundred.
    *Sc. 1771 T. Pennant Tour 1769 121:
    The roofs are sarked, i.e. covered with inch-and-half deal, sawed into three planks, and then nailed to the joists, on which the slates are pinned.
    *Bwk. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XIV. 47:
    Its vaulted roof has been converted into the present one of cupples, and blue slate, with serking of deals.
    *Sc. 1834 G. Smith Cottages 19:
    In the South and West of Scotland, where the large Welsh slates are generally used, there is no sarking or boarding laid over the couples, but merely lath rods, similar to what are used for tiling.
    *Abd. 1877 W. Alexander Rural Life 157:
    Even when slates came into use as a roofing material, they were attached to the ``sarking'' not by iron nails but by hardwood pins.
    *Arg. 1952 N. Mitchison Lobsters on Agenda vi.:
    The sarking of the old roof.
    *Mry. 1965 Stat. Acc.3 187:
    The roofs sarked and slated.
    [O.Sc. sark, shirt, a.1400 sarkin(g), of a roof, 1532, shirting, 1575, North. Mid.Eng. serk, O.N. serkr, a shirt.]

 DSL - SNDS2   SARK, n., v. I. 1. Add quots.:
    *Ork. 1952 R. T. Johnston Stenwick Days (1984) 21:
    "Whit a daft thing tae deu," said Henrietta. "Pit thee sark on a horse."
    *wm.Sc. 1980 Anna Blair The Rowan on the Ridge 61:
    When the excisemen or soldiers appeared, making for the unloading ship, the first small look-out would wave sark or kerchief wildly until he saw his message taken up and passed along the line.
    *m.Sc. 1986 Colin Mackay The Song of the Forest 178:
    He gave her an armful of sarks which had belonged to dead troopers. Dead men's clothes! Seonaid shivered.
    *Sc. 1991 T. S. Law in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 34:
    In thae days whuin a collier man
was crusht an killt alow a stane,
the-tyme wi sploongein, swaetie sark,
gurriein, he wrocht at the wark,
    *Abd. 1993:
    Naebody's lookin at ye --- jist gang in yer bare sark.

    I. 4. Add Comb.: sark-tail, A shirt-tail.
    *Abd. 1981 Christina Forbes Middleton The Dance in the Village 79:
    We doon the stair thegither
Jeck ready for the wiggin'
Wi' me hingin' on tae his sark-tail
Aye peengin' awa an' priggin'.
    *ne.Sc. 2003 Press and Journal 20 Oct 12:
    Weel deen tae aa for bridgin the eers in sang an clatter and I hope the young eens will haud gyan. They dinna quite realise yet foo important their darg is. We hae, tae me, the best twa in the lan ivnoo haudin up oor ain tradition in Robert Lovie an Paul Anderson. Lat's hope some will hing on tae their sark tails.