Pronunciation

• barque

Etymology

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

   Usage: usually uncountable; may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.

2. Specifically, Peruvian bark.

Related terms

• ringbark
• paperbark
• stringybark

Translations

Verb

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

Translations

• Danish afbarke (1); skrubbe (2); tække (4)

Etymology

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

Translations

• Danish gøen c
• Finnish: haukku
• French: aboiement m
• German: Gebell n
• Latin: latratus m
• Español: ladrido m

Verb

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.
   Tyndale.

3. 
   
4. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.
   Fuller.
5. To speak sharply.

   The sergeant barked an order

Related terms

• barking

Translations

• Danish gø (1); råbe op (2)
• Dutch: blaffen
• Estonian: haukuma
• Finnish: haukkua (1, 3)
• French: aboyer
• German: bellen(1), brüllen (3)
• Hebrew: לנבוח (Lin'bo'akh) (1)
• Italian: abbaiare (1)
• Latin: latro (1, 3), baubor (1)
• Español: ladrar m (1, 3)

Etymology

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

Translations

Polish