ark
noun
- Archaic a chest or coffer
- an enclosure in a synagogue or temple for the scrolls of the Torah
- a place or thing furnishing protection; refuge
- the huge boat in which Noah, his family, and two of every kind of creature survived the Flood: Gen. 6
- ark of the covenant
- ☆ a large, flat-bottomed boat formerly used on rivers
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