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 (yacht) then RAF Bardney in Lincoln. They named their new Avro Lancaster "Cutty Sark". It flew 30 missions before being shot down. "Cutty Sark" also appears, by name, in the 1943 film, "Close Quarters". By 1944 the need for requisitioned vessels had diminished, and HMS "Cutty Sark" was laid up at King’s Lynn and used by the Sea Cadets. In 1946 she was acquired, in an unseaworthy condition, as a training ship by the Jewish Marine League. The League had been founded in 1934 with the aim of training boys for a future Israeli merchant marine. The original intention was to