barks

Noun (1)

bark (plural barks)

1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
   • Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.c. 1921, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11
3. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
4. (countable) (video games) A short, repeatable, and unobtrusive voiceline spoken by an NPC.

Noun (2)

bark (countable and uncountable, plural barks)

1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants.
   • The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the...1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346

   Synonyms:

   rind

2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

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