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
Lord of the Isles (clipper) passengers, thirty people in all, made Macao in the ship’s boats, despite being boarded twice by pirates. "The Yankee Clipper", a 1927 adventure movie produced by Cecil D. DeMille, features a race between "Lord of the Isles" against the American ship "Yankee Clipper" for rights to the Foochow tea trade. The film was shot aboard a surviving 1850s square-rigger, "Indiana", and includes footage taken from high in the rigging under sail. Lord of the Isles (clipper) Lord of the Isles was the first iron-hulled tea clipper, built in Greenock in 1853. She served in the tea trade until 1862, and