Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A berserk or berserker.
- In a shirt only; without armor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.
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- noun obsolete A
berserker , or Norse warrior who fought without armour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'It was your advice, was it not, to make my brother baresark?'
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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At the front of the Aenir line the giant Orsa felt the baresark rage upon him.
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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He fought them, learning how to go baresark at a certain point in a fight, bursting into tears of anger, reaching for rocks, uttering wailed threats of murder and attempting to fulfil them.
Chapter 2 1918
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He fought them, learning how to go baresark at a certain point in a fight, bursting into tears of anger, reaching for rocks, uttering wailed threats of murder and attempting to fulfil them.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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Flopit was baresark from the first, and the mystery is where he learned the dog-cursing that he did.
Seventeen 1915
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Coincidentally, Marjorie, quite baresark, laid hands upon the largest stick within reach and fell upon Penrod with blind fury.
Penrod 1914
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It was individualism baresark, amok, crazily frantic.
The Fortunate Youth 1914
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Coincidentally, Marjorie, quite baresark, laid hands upon the largest stick within reach and fell upon Penrod with blind fury.
Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907
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Flopit was baresark from the first, and the mystery is where he learned the dog-cursing that he did.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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In the bright water into which he stared, the pictures changed and were repeated: the baresark rage of Goddedaal; the blood-red light of the sunset into which they had run forth; the face of the babbling Chinaman as they cast him over; the face of the captain, seen a moment since, as he awoke from drunkenness into remorse.
The Wrecker 1898
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