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baresark, n. and adv.|ˈbɛəsɑːk|
[lit. = ‘bare shirt,’ in reference to a current etymology of berserker, q.v.]
A. n. (also attrib.) A berserker, or wild Norse warrior; sometimes explained as a warrior fighting in his ‘bare shirt.’
B. adv. In a shirt only, without armour.
1840Carlyle Heroes vi, The great savage Baresark. 1857Emerson Poems 187 Thy sires..Failed to bequeath..The Baresark marrow to thy bones. 1866Kingsley Herew. xii. 169, I will go baresark to-morrow to the war. |