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noun

Bark n.

1.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

2.

Specifically, Peruvian bark.

Bark bed. See Bark stove (below).

Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning.

Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

Bark n. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Barque, Bark n.

1.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

2.

(Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

verb

Bark v. t. (past & past part. barked; pres. part. barking)

1.

To strip the bark from; to peel.

2.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

3.

To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

4.

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

Bark v. i.

1.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

2.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. "They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics." "Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed."

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"Bark" Quotes from Famous Books

... is," he began, as he seated himself on the log in front of the tents, with one leg hanging down, and the other drawn up with the heel of his boot caught on a projection in the bark, his knee almost even with his nose, and his fingers locked across his shin, "I don't know exactly why, but the catching of that trout makes me think of an adventer I had on this very lake, five year ago this summer. It is curious how things will lay around in ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... down a revolt among the Pisidians, and conquered the whole of Phrygia. On his arrival at Gordium, which is said to have been the capital of King Midas of old, he was shown the celebrated chariot there, tied up with a knot of cornel-tree bark. Here he was told the legend, which all the natives believed, that whoever untied that knot was destined to become lord of all the world. Most historians say that as the knot was tied with a strap whose ends could not be found, and was very complicated ...

— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... Hoshangabad and rank as a good agricultural caste. The Lodhas of the United Provinces are placed lowest among the agricultural castes by Mr. Nesfield, who describes them as little better than a forest tribe. The name is perhaps derived from the bark of the lodh tree, which was collected by the Lodhas of northern India and sold for use as a dyeing agent. In the Central Provinces the name has been changed to Lodhi, and they are said to have been ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

... August 5th, I left Monrovia in the bark Mendi, stopping at Junk, Little Bassa, Grand Bassa mouth of St. John's River, Sinou, arriving at Cape ...

— Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party • Martin Robinson Delany

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