charking

Verb (1)

chark (third-person singular simple present charks, present participle charking, simple past and past participle charked)

1. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
   • I have ſeen Turf chark'd, and then it ſerves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ſerve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf chark'd I reckon the ſweeteſt and wholeſomeſt Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and conſumptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.1749, John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC, 5th Edition

Verb (2)

chark (third-person singular simple present charks, present participle charking, simple past and past participle charked)

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
   • The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.1820, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7

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