Sark

Meanings

1. One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
2. 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.

1. A shirt or smock.

1. To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

Etymology

Unknown, but see Wikipedia. Richard Coates has suggested derivation from a Proto-Semitic cognate of Arabic شرق (“east, Orient”), although this is considered unlikely. The river-name is probably derived from Proto-Brythonic *serch, of uncertain meaning and etymology but associated with "circularity".