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

talk

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[ noun ] a noise resembling the bark of a dog

Related terms

noise

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[ noun ] (nautical,transportation) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

Synonyms

barque

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

sailing_vessel

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[ verb ] remove the bark of a tree

Synonyms

skin

Related terms

strip skin

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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

Related terms

tan

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[ verb ] cover with bark

Related terms

cover

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[ verb ] make barking sounds

Examples

"The dogs barked at the stranger"

Related terms

utter yelp bay

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[ noun ] the sound made by a dog

Related terms

cry bow-wow

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