warks

Noun (1)

wark (plural warks)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) Pain; ache.

   Synonyms:

   agony, pang, misery, pain

Noun (2)

wark (plural warks)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Work.
   • That September (1582) in time of vacance, my uncle Mr. Andrew, Mr. Thomas Buchanan and I, hearing that Mr. George Buchanan was weak, and his history under the press, passed over to Edinburgh anes errand to visite him, and to see the wark.1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, page 141

   Synonyms:

   labour, effort, exertion, pains, work

2. (Scotland, obsolete) A building.
   • 'Yet this imposition,' says Nicoll, 'seemed not to thrive; for at the same instant God frae the heavens declared his anger by sending thunder, and unheard tempests, and storms, and inundations of water, whilk destroyed their common mills, dams, and warks, to the town's great charges and expenses.'...1858, Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, page 253

   Synonyms:

   edifice, building

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