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yarks

yarks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yark.

Meaning of yark

Verb (1)

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make ready; prepare.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To set open; open.

Verb (2)

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

  1. (transitive) To bind or draw (especially leather or stitches) tight.
    • [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland
  2. (transitive) To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
  3. (transitive) To crack (a whip).
    • he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96

Questions about yarks

What is yarks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Yarks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yark.

Words near yarks in the dictionary

  1. Yarkhill
  2. yarking
  3. Yarkovsky
  4. Yarkovsky effect
  5. Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect
  6. yarks
  7. yarl
  8. Yarlagadda
  9. Yarlagaddas
  10. yarled
  11. yarligh

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