"yark" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /jɑːk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yark.wav Forms: yarks [present, singular, third-person], yarking [participle, present], yarked [participle, past], yarked [past]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ȝarken}} Middle English ȝarken, {{inh|en|ang|ġearcian||to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply}} Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*garwakōn}} Proto-West Germanic *garwakōn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*garwakōną||to prepare}} Proto-Germanic *garwakōną (“to prepare”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʰrebʰ-||to grab, take, rake}} Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab, take, rake”), {{suffix|en|yare|k|nocat=1}} yare + -k, {{cog|ang|ġearc||ready, active, quick}} Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)
  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To make ready; prepare. Tags: UK, dialectal, transitive
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb-3hiXJG3Z Categories (other): British English, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 39 43 4 5 4 4
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb-G65f1sSY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 56 2 3 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 39 43 4 5 4 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 56 3 4 3 3
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To set open; open. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb-WRoyNexo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: yarking
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /jɑːk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yark.wav Forms: yarks [present, singular, third-person], yarking [participle, present], yarked [participle, past], yarked [past], yerk [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k Etymology: Uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare jerk etc. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-verb}} yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)
  1. To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb-laNQKHBV
  2. To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb-GsUqz8he
  3. To crack (a whip).
    Sense id: en-yark-en-verb--ifJGamP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (9e2b7d3 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.