Definitions for bark

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bark bark

Spelling: [bahrk]

IPA: /bɑrk/

Bark is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in bark (abkr).

Definitions for bark

noun

1. the abrupt, harsh, explosive cry of a dog.
2. a similar sound made by another animal, as a fox.
3. a short, explosive sound, as of firearms:
4. a brusque order, reply, etc.:
5. a cough.
6. the external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
7. Tanning. a mixture of oak and hemlock barks.
8. candy, usually of chocolate with large pieces of nuts, made in flat sheets.
9. Nautical. a sailing vessel having three or more masts, square-rigged on all but the aftermost mast, which is fore-and-aft-rigged.
10. Literary. a boat or sailing vessel.

Idioms

1. bark at the moon, to protest in vain:
2. bark up the wrong tree, to assail or pursue the wrong person or object; misdirect one's efforts:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in a harsh, shouting tone:
2. to rub off or scrape the skin of, as by bumping into something:
3. to remove a circle of bark from; girdle.
4. to cover, enclose, or encrust with or as if with bark.
5. to treat with a bark infusion; tan.
6. to strip the bark from; peel.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a dog or other animal) to utter an abrupt, explosive cry or a series of such cries.
2. to make a similar sound:
3. to speak or cry out sharply or gruffly:
4. Informal. to advertise a theater performance, carnival sideshow, or the like, by standing at the entrance and calling out to passersby.
5. to cough.

Origin of bark

before 900; Middle English berken, Old English beorcan; akin to Old English borcian to bark, Old Norse berkja to bluster, Lithuanian burgė́ti to growl, quarrel, Serbo-Croatian br̀gljati to m

Examples for bark

A neighborhood dog had begun to bark, and they were worried about the police coming.

It all boils down to scratching your name in the bark of a tree.

The bark is jagged by the slashes of venomous chassepot bullets.

The wire is long gone, but a rusted snag remains entombed in the bark.

“Impossible,” began the other, but was silenced by a sort of bark from Mr. Wilde.

I made the sign of friendship and set food before her, and water in a cup of bark.

That it is one tree seems to be evident from the growth of the bark only on the outside.

The needles of the yew tree can kill you, but the bark is important for many modern drugs.

The vessel was an English bark, full of soldiers, bound to New Brunswick.

He stuffed his pipe again with fine tobacco and bark of red willow and began.