Definitions for harks

harks hark

Spelling: [hahrk]
IPA: /hɑrk/

Harks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in harks (ahkrs).

Definitions for harks

noun

  1. a hunter's shout to hounds, as to encourage them in following the scent.

Verb phrases

  1. hark back, (of hounds) to return along the course in order to regain a lost scent. to return to a previous subject or point; revert:

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to listen to; hear.

verb (used without object)

  1. to listen attentively; hearken.

Origin of harks

1175-1225; Middle English herken, earlier herkien, Old English *heorcian; cognate with Old Frisian herkia, harkia; akin to Middle Dutch harken, Middle High German, German horchen. See

Examples for harks

After a pause recurs the phrase that harks from mediaeval romance, now in a stirring ascent of close chasing voices.

This is almost a lost art, and harks back to the pre-string days.

One harks back to the time of William Wheelwright, who may be called the father of railways in Argentina.

That very modern cry of "equality of opportunity" harks back to Plato.

I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil.

In his brain, though never in his heart, he harks back to his wolf ancestors.

His mind, distraught with business cares, harks back to his home—with pleasure?

True, he harks back to Theophrastus in matters of style and technique.

Bernard harks back to a line of moral crooks, kept out of jail by legal see-saw.

Instead of this he harks back again to the dreary homiletical waste of the traditional Historismus.

Word Value for harks
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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