Carrick

Full definition of carrick

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of carrack
2. (Nabokov) A greatcoat.
• 1959, Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading...here there was little hairy Pushkin in a fur carrick, and ratlike Gogol in a flamboyant waistcoat, and old little Tolstoy with his fat nose...
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lecture on The Metamorphosis (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)... A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick")...----