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
Cutty Sark (whisky) also of Cussler himself, who is featured as a bit character in most of his novels. A bottle of Cutty Sark vintage 1985 is mentioned to be worth a fortune in science fiction novel "Lies, Inc." by Philip K. Dick. In Yukio Mishima's 1971 novel "The Decay of the Angel", Cutty Sark is the whiskey of choice for Honda, the main character. James Hadley Chase refers to Cutty Sark in several of his crime novels. In the second part of the 2009 novel "Invisible" by Paul Auster, the protagonist Adam Walker serves Cutty Sark on ice to his sister Gwyn,