Meaning of Bark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
   obsolete
2. An Irish person.
   obsolete, slang
3. A surname.
4. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
5. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
   countable, uncountable
6. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
   poetic
7. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
   figuratively
8. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
   countable, uncountable
9. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
10. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
11. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
    countable, uncountable
12. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
    countable, uncountable
13. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.”

“Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.”

“The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.”

“Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.”

“This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.”

“It is the star to every wandering bark”

“We know not where we go, or what sweet dream May pilot us through caverns strange and fair Of far and pathless passion, while the stream Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear, Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air; […]”

“Whether my bark went down at sea, / Whether she met with gales, […]”

“Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.”

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