Bark vs Trunk - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between bark and trunk

is that bark is a small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge while trunk is to lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

As verbs the difference between bark and trunk

is that bark is to make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs) while trunk is to lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

As nouns the difference between bark and trunk

is that bark is the short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog while trunk is Part of a body.

bark
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) barken, berken, borken, from (etyl) .
Verb
(en verb)
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).

The neighbour's dog is always barking .

The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

* (rfdate), Tyndale.

They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.

* (rfdate), Fuller

Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. .

To speak sharply.

The sergeant barked an order.

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Usage notes
Historically, bork'' existed as a past tense form and ''borken as a past participle, but both forms are now obsolete.
Derived terms
* bark up the wrong tree * barking * barking dogs never bite * bebark * dogs bark *
Synonyms
* latrate (obsolete)
Noun
(en noun)
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 , The Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol 11:

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.

Etymology 2
From (etyl) bark, from (etyl) .
Noun
(wikipedia bark)
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

* '>citation

Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.

(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.

* 2009 , Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book , page 151:

This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark .

Usage notes
Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.
Synonyms
* (exterior covering of a tree) rind
Related terms
* ringbark * paperbark * stringybark
Verb
(en verb)
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

Etymology 3
From (etyl) , from Egyptian b?re .
Alternative forms
* barque
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.

(poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

* circa 1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:

It is the star to every wandering bark

* circa 1880 , among the Poems of Emily Dickinson:

Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales,

(nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----
trunk
English

Noun
(en noun)
Part of a body.

#The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

#The torso.

#The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.

#The proboscis of an insect.

(lb) A container.

#A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.

#*

#*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks , swarm in the corridors.

#A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:locked up in chests and trunks

# The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

(lb) A channel for flow of some kind.

# A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

#A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

#A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

#(lb) A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

#*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)

#*:He shot sugarplums at them out of a trunk .

#(lb) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

The main line or body of anything.

:

#(lb) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

#(lb) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

Synonyms
* boot (UK, Aus ) * (upright part of a tree) tree trunk * (nose of an elephant) proboscis
Derived terms
* tree trunk * trunk road
External links
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Verb
(en verb)
(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

* Spenser

Out of the trunked stock.

(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.