Carrick
See also: carrick
English
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editEtymology
editAnglicised version of Irish carraig, Scottish Gaelic carraig or Cornish karrek, all meaning rock.
Proper noun
editCarrick
- A surname from Irish.
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
- A local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fiord-like Carrick Roads estuary. It was abolished on 31 March 2009.
- 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.
- 1791, Robert Burns, “Tam o'Shanter”[1]Edinburgh Magazine:
- (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, ...)
- There was one beautiful and vivacious young woman / That night enlisted in the corps [of dancers] / Long remembered on the shore of Carrick / (For she had caused many large animals to slip down [the cliffs] to their deaths, / And fatally lured many good boats [onto the rocks], ...)
- 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.
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