Cutty Sark

noun

1. a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cutty Sark¹

named after the witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, who wore only a cutty sark (short shirt)