Sark

Meaning

1. A shirt or smock.
2. To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
3. One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
4. 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.

Etymology / origin

Channel Island: Unknown, see Sercq and Wikipedia for more. River between Scotland and England: Probably derived from Proto-Brythonic *serx, of uncertain meaning and etymology but associated with "circularity".

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