cark
IPA: kɑrk
noun
- (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
- (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
- A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
- (intransitive) To labor anxiously.
- See cark it.
- Pronunciation spelling of caulk. [(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.]
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