Cutty-sark (witch) "chemise", or "shirt". The earliest recorded literary usage of the term "cutty sark" (as opposed to older usage of the two separate words) is by Dougal Graham in c. 1779 (the year of his death): "A cutty sark of guide harn sheet, My mitter he pe spin, mattam." In Burns' 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter, the drunken Tam, riding home on his horse, happens upon a witches' dance. Among the dancing figures is a particularly beautiful young witch named Nannie (Scots pet-form of Anna), "ae winsome wench and wawlie" (line 164). She is wearing a "harn" (linen) "sark" (nightshirt) which
City of Adelaide (1864) Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, "City of Adelaide" departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, Australia, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. "City of Adelaide" is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive — the other is "Cutty Sark" (built 1869; a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, south London). With "Cutty Sark" and (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), "City of Adelaide" is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction