bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).
Senses: examples: text: The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.
ref: 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346:
text: Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
glosses: Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
examples: text: This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.
ref: 2009, Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book, page 151:
glosses: The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
glosses: The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
Synonyms: sense: exterior covering of a tree
word: rind
Derived terms: word: bark bed
taxonomic: Scolytinae spp.
word: bark beetle
word: barkbound
word: bark bread
word: bark dust
word: barkery
word: barkless
word: barklike
taxonomic: Coccidae spp.
word: bark louse
word: bark mill
word: bark mixture
taxonomic: Centruroides spp.
word: bark scorpion
word: bark spud
word: barky
word: beech bark disease
word: birchbark
english: especially Alstonia constricta
translation: especially Alstonia constricta
word: bitter bark
word: cabbage-bark
word: Cartagena bark
taxonomic: Cinchona spp.
word: China bark
word: cinchona bark
word: crampbark
word: debark
word: debarker
word: disbark
taxonomic: Alstonia scholaris
word: dita bark
word: elm bark beetle
taxonomic: Rhamnus purshiana
word: holy bark
word: ironbark
word: lacebark
taxonomic: Erythrophleum suaveolens
word: Mancona bark
word: maple bark disease
word: maple bark stripper's disease
alt: Cryptostroma corticale
word: maple bark stripper's disease
word: ninebark
word: oakbark
taxonomic: Melaleuca spp.
word: paperbark
word: park and bark
word: peppermint bark
word: ringbark
word: ring-bark
word: rootbark
word: root bark
taxonomic: Erythrophleum suaveolens
word: sassy bark
word: scale bark
word: sevenbark
word: shagbark
word: shellbark
word: soapbark
alt: Cryptostroma corticale
word: sooty bark disease
word: stembark
taxonomic: Eucalyptus spp.
word: stringybark
word: tanbark
word: throw in the bark
word: toothache bark
word: tree bark
word: treebark
word: unbark
word: underbark
word: whitebark
taxonomic: Drimys winteri
word: Winter's bark
word: worm bark
taxonomic: Cinchona spp.
word: yellow bark