bark
has definitions from the fields of nautical,transportation,botany
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[ noun ] (botany) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)Most_of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp , on stumps , pieces of bark , drum_heads , or the knee . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Every morning early , in the summer , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells , carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung , and stabled them , a weird faery herd , in an angle between the high roots of the tulip_tree , where no grass grew in the dense shade . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)Swadesh , and therefore Hoijer , felt compelled to omit all terms denoting species or even genera ( fox , vulture , salmon , yellow_pine , manzanita ) ; their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish , bird , tree , grass , horn , tail , bark , root ) . |
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[ verb ] speak in an unfriendly tone
Examples "She barked into the dictaphone" Used in print (Thomas Anderson, Here Comes Pete Now....)He would pick_up the ringing phone with studied negligence , then bark into it with gruff importance . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a noise resembling the bark of a dog
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[ noun ] (nautical,transportation) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
Synonyms Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)On April 17 , 1610 , the sturdy little three masted bark , Discovery , weighed_anchor in St._Katherine's_Pool , London , and floated down the Thames toward_the_sea . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 15925
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[ verb ] tan (a skin) with bark tannins
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[ verb ] cover with bark
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