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Carked vs Yarked - What's the difference?

carked | yarked |

As verbs the difference between carked and yarked

is that carked is (cark) while yarked is (yark).

carked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cark)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    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)
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    yarked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (yark)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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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