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Cark vs Yark - What's the difference?

cark | yark |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between cark and yark

is that cark is (obsolete) the state of being filled with worry while yark is (obsolete) to set open; open.

As verbs the difference between cark and yark

is that cark is to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles or cark can be while yark is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight.

As a noun cark

is (obsolete) a noxious or corroding worry.

cark

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  • * Spenser
  • His heavy head, devoid of careful cark .
  • * Motherwell
  • Fling cark and care aside.
  • * R. D. Blackmore
  • Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
  • (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
  • Etymology 2

    From (caulk)

    Verb

    (en verb)
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    Anagrams

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    yark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ready; prepare.
  • *1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
  • [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
  • (obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
  • (obsolete) To set open; open.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare (jerk) etc.

    Alternative forms

    * yerk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
  • To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
  • To crack (a whip).
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
  • *:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .
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