Cask vs Cark - What's the difference?
cask | cark |
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
(obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
* 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
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.
In obsolete terms the difference between cask and cark
is that cask is a casket; a small box for jewels while cark is the state of being filled with worry.As nouns the difference between cask and cark
is that cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks while cark is a noxious or corroding worry.As verbs the difference between cask and cark
is that cask is to put into a cask while cark is to be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.cask
English
(wikipedia cask)Noun
(en noun)- A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.
Derived terms
* cask beerAnagrams
* *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.
