yark
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /jɑːk/
yark (yarks, present participle yarking; past and past participle yarked)
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To make ready; prepare.
- 1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland:
- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]
- 1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland:
- (transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
- (transitive, obsolete) To set open; open.
yark (yarks, present participle yarking; past and past participle yarked)
- To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
- To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
- To crack (a whip).
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:, 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.
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