The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. / (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.

(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. / (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

To strip the bark from; to peel. / To abrade or rub off any outer covering from. / To girdle. / To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

(intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). / (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree. / (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

(in combination) Having the specified kind of bark.

simple past tense and past participle of bark

Obsolete spelling of bark

A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484). / A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).

present participle of bark