cark

IPA: kɑrk

(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).

(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.]

Examples of "cark" in Sentences

Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
So he abode in cark and care and chagrin from morn to night and from night to morn.
So he rose up and went out and threaded the streets awhile, but only increased in cark and care.
= "I fail at life." balancing act: Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
Idibia's statement was quite specific, confirming that he was "still intact", with no immediate plans to cark it.
And they show that airport cark parks are big business, raking in around $244 million in the 2007-2008 financial year.
a soul nor return a reply; and reaching the garden and sitting down in cark and care he threw dust on his head and buffeted his cheeks. —
If whomever found him had never caught him before they shoulda shat on it. balancing act: Sorry to meatjack, but I have never run across "cark" before.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the ship sped on her course, Kamar al-Zaman returned to the garden in cark and care; but — anon he rented the place of its owner and hired a man to help him in irrigating the trees.
Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn.