BARK: значение слова

I. verb
Etymology: Middle English berken, from Old English beorcan; akin to Old Norse berkja to bark, Lithuanian burgėti to growl Date: before 12th century intransitive verb

1. to make the characteristic short loud cry of a dog, to make a noise resembling a bark, to speak in a curt loud and usually angry tone ; snap , transitive verb to utter in a curt loud usually angry tone , to advertise by persistent outcry ,

II. noun Date: before 12th century

1. the sound made by a barking dog, a similar sound, a short sharp peremptory tone of speech or utterance, barkless adjective

III. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse bark-, bǫrkr; akin to Middle Dutch & Middle Low German borke bark
Date: 14th century
the tough exterior covering of a woody root or stem, cinchona 2, a candy containing chocolate and nuts that is made in a sheet and broken into pieces, barkless adjective

IV. transitive verb
Date: 14th century
to treat with an infusion of tanbark,

2. to strip the bark from, to rub off or abrade the skin of ,

V. noun or barque
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French barque, from Old Occitan barca, from Late Latin
Date: 15th century


1. a small sailing ship, a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft rigged and the others square-rigged, a craft propelled by sails or oars