Wark vs Yark - What's the difference?
wark | yark |
To make ready; prepare.
*1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
(obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(obsolete) To set open; open.
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 .
As verbs the difference between wark and yark
is that wark is to be in pain; ache while yark is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight.As a noun wark
is pain; ache or wark can be (obsolete|chiefly|scotland) a building.wark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) werk, warch, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) werken, warchen, from (etyl) . See above.Etymology 3
See work.yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
