yark

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /jɑːk/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k === Etymology 1 === From Middle English ȝarken, ȝerken, from Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), Proto-West Germanic *garwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *garwakōną (“to prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab, take, rake”), equivalent to yare +‎ -k. Related to Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”), ġearu (“prepared, ready, equipped, complete, finished, yare”). More at yare. ==== Verb ==== yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To make ready; prepare. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To set open; open. ===== Derived terms ===== yarking === Etymology 2 === Uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare jerk etc. ==== Alternative forms ==== yerk ==== Verb ==== yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked) To bind or draw (especially leather or stitches) tight. To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip. To crack (a whip). , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96: he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France. === Anagrams === aryk, kray, Kary, kary-, raky, Kyra, Kray == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English arke, from Old English ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”). Compare also yart (“art”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jark/ === Noun === yark (figurative) barn Synonym: barrn === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 79