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carking

[ kahr-king ]

adjective

Archaic.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of carking1

First recorded in 1560–70; cark, -ing 2
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Sculptures that could not be removed from the reservation have been defaces, such as a small carking of a bear that someone tried to pry from the ground.

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Surely her fitting place was in the fragrant earth, sheltered by waving grass from carking cares.

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Through the misery at his heart and the carking pain from his muzzle, Lad began to realize that he was tired, also that he was hollow from lack of food.

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And she was far less cursed with "nerves," with feverish unrest and carking discontent, than women are to-day.

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He thought of the years of carking secrecy through which such things are dragged in England, and contrasted it with the neat despatch of the Yankee system.

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