"cark" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɑː(ɹ)k/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cark.wav Forms: carks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k Etymology: From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cark}} Middle English cark, {{inh|en|ang|carc|t=sorrow, worry}} Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cark (countable and uncountable, plural carks)
  1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cark-en-noun-rEsiF1-h
  2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cark-en-noun-TNqvZRiA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 33 2 3 20 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 1 25 1 1 15 26 2 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /kɑː(ɹ)k/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cark.wav Forms: carks [present, singular, third-person], carking [participle, present], carked [participle, past], carked [past]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k Etymology: From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k. The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harrass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|carken|pos=intransitive|t=to be anxious, worry}} Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), {{inh|en|ang|*carcian}} Old English *carcian, {{gl|"to be sorrowful, worry"; found in <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">becarcian</i> (“to worry about, care for”)}} ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), {{der|en|ang|carian|t=to care}} Old English carian (“to care”), {{suf|en|care|-k}} care + -k, {{ncog|enm|carken}} Middle English carken, {{ncog|fro-nor|carquier|t=to load, burden}} Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), {{ncog|la|carrico|carricāre|t=to load}} Latin carricāre (“to load”), {{ncog|fro|chargier|t=to load}} Old French chargier (“to load”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-cark-en-verb-5QbF9--z
  2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety. Tags: intransitive, obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-cark-en-verb-FJhQj9yY
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously. Tags: archaic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-cark-en-verb-4OAqkd4v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -k, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 33 2 3 20 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -k: 15 15 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 1 25 1 1 15 26 2 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: overcark
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /kɑː(ɹ)k/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cark.wav Forms: carks [present, singular, third-person], carking [participle, present], carked [participle, past], carked [past]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k Etymology: From caulk. Head templates: {{en-verb}} cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
  1. Pronunciation spelling of caulk. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: caulk Related terms: cark it
    Sense id: en-cark-en-verb-QQQ1pYOS Categories (other): English pronunciation spellings, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 33 2 3 20 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 1 25 1 1 15 26 2 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:",
          "text": "[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?",
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        "(obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles."
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          "ref": "1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22",
          "text": "Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age."
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          "ref": "1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.",
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          "ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:",
          "text": "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.",
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          "ref": "1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:",
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        "(archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously."
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