Ark vs Cark - What's the difference?
ark | cark |
A large box with a flat lid.
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
(Judaism) A consecrated container.
To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
*1831 , (Adam Clarke), VI p.600:
*:Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
* Spenser
* Motherwell
* R. D. Blackmore
(obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
As a proper noun ark
is the boat built by the biblical noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the ).As a verb cark is
to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles or cark can be .As a noun cark is
(obsolete) a noxious or corroding worry.ark
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Ark of the CovenantExternal links
* *Synonyms
* barge * basket * chest * coffer * hutch * refuge * retreat * shelter * ship * vesselAnagrams
* ----cark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
- Fling cark and care aside.
- Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
