Hear it pronouncedbark
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From the Middle English bark, from the Old Norse bǫrkr (“‘tree bark’”), from the Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to Proto-Germanic *berkjon (“‘birch’”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergo, from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“‘to gleam; white’”). Akin to Danish, Norwegian and Swedish bark, Icelandic börkr, and Low German borke.
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bark (countable and uncountable; plural barks)
- (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
- (medicine) Peruvian Bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
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Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.
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to bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- to bark one’s heel
- To girdle.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- bark the roof of a hut
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From the Middle English berken (“‘to bark’”), from the Old English beorcan, from the Proto-Germanic *berkanan, of echoic/imitative origin. Akin to the Icelandic berkja
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bark (plural barks)
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
- A similar sound made by some other animals.
- (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- circa 1921 CE: Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement. — The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Vol XI.
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to bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)
- To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. — Tyndale.
- Where there is the barking of thee belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. — Fuller.
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