Meaning of starky | Babel Free

Definitions

Stiff, rigid, hard to work (e.g. with a needle or plough).

dialectal, obsolete, possibly

Examples

“His Hands would be as hard, dry and starky, as if he had wrought for his Living, at Cleaving of Wood.”

“if the ground be so dry and starky, that eight oxen and an horse must be put to the plough, so much the better; […]”

CEFR level