Yark vs Yari - What's the difference?
yark | yari |
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 .
(weapons, Japan) A spear used in martial arts, of various sizes.
As a verb yark
is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight.As a noun yari is
(weapons|japan) a spear used in martial arts, of various sizes.yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
