2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
3. To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
Bark
(Bark), v. i. [OE. berken, AS. beorcan; akin to Icel. berkja, and prob. to E. break.]
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.
Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.
Fuller.
Bark
(Bark), n. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other
animals.
Bark
(Bark, Barque) n. [F. barque, fr. Sp. or It. barca, fr. LL. barca for barica. See Barge.]
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. (Naut.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast
schooner- rigged.
Barkantine
(Bark"an*tine) n. Same as Barkentine.
Bark beetle
(Bark" bee`tle) (Zoöl.) A small beetle of many species which in the larval state bores under or
in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
Barkbound
(Bark"bound`) a. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
Barkeeper
(Bar"keep`er) n. One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
Barken
(Bark"en) a. Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.
Barkentine
(Bark"en*tine) n. [See Bark, n., a vessel.] (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast
square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust.
in Append.
Barker
(Bark"er) n.
1. An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
2. One who stands at the doors of shops to urg passers by to make purchases. [Cant, Eng.]
3. A pistol. [Slang] Dickens.
4. (Zoöl.) The spotted redshank.
Barker
(Bark"er), n. One who strips trees of their bark.
