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carks

carks is the plural of cark.

Meaning of cark

Noun

cark (countable and uncountable, plural carks)

  1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
    • His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44
  2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

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Phrases with carks

Questions about carks

What is carks the plural of?
Carks is the plural of cark.

Words near carks in the dictionary

  1. carking
  2. carking it
  3. carkingly
  4. carkings
  5. carkoi
  6. carks
  7. carks it
  8. carky
  9. carl
  10. Carl Sunday
  11. Carl Sundays

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