Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. She was named after the fictional witch who wore only a short shift in Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter, first published in 1791. The witch Cutty Sark ran after Tam o' Shanter, who was fleeing on his horse, and caught the horse's tail at the Brig o' Doon. The name was an association between the speed of the fictional witch and that of the clipper ship.

Cutty Sark (whisky)

Cutty Sark is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by La Martiniquaise in Scotland.

Sark

Sark is an island in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, and part of the archipelago of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a self-governing British Crown Dependency, with its own set of laws based on Norman law, and its own parliament. It was a royal fiefdom until 2008, when the Constitution of Sark went into effect.

cutty

Adjective

1. Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
2. Having many cuts.

Noun

1. A short spoon.
2. A short tobacco pipe; a cutty-pipe.

sark

Noun

1. A garment worn against the torso, inclusive of shirts, tunics, undershirts, nightshirts, surplices.
2. Synonym of shirt, whether worn against the skin or not.

Verb

1. To cover with sarking, or thin boards.