dial. [Old Northumbrian carr rock.] A rock: now especially applied to insulated rocks off the Northumbrian and Scottish coasts.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. vii. 24. Se ðe ʓetimbres hus his ofer carr. Ibid., Mark xv. 46. Byrʓen þæt wæs ʓeheawen of carre.
1856. Berwick Nat. Club, III. 223. Farne Islands—The Utt Carres, modernized into Out Carres, are not far from Monkshouse.
