Cark Definition
kärk
carks
verb
carks
To burden or be burdened with trouble; worry.
American Heritage
To worry or be worried.
Webster's New World
(obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
Wiktionary
Eye dialect spelling of caulk.
Wiktionary
noun
carks
A worry; a trouble.
Carks and cares.
American Heritage
Distress; anxiety.
Webster's New World
Motherwell.
Fling cark and care aside.
Wiktionary
R. D. Blackmore.
Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Cark
Noun
Singular:
cark
Plural:
carksOrigin of Cark
From Middle English carken (“to be anxious”), from Old English carcian, becarcian (“to be anxious, be anxious about, care for, take charge of, look after”), from car- (“care”) + formative -cian (suffix).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English carken from Norman French carquier to burden, load from Late Latin carricāre cargo
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From caulk
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