Meaning of cark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A noxious or corroding worry.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).
3. The state of being filled with worry.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.”

“Fling cark and care aside.”

“To all who love repose and shelter, Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion, and (in lieu of these) refreshing air, bright water, and green country, there is scarcely any valley left to compare with that of Springhaven.”

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