barken

See also: Barken

English

Etymology 1

From bark +‎ -en.

Adjective

barken (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Made of bark.

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Etymology 2

From bark +‎ -en.

Verb

barken (third-person singular simple present barkens, present participle barkening, simple past and past participle barkened)

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
   • 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎^[1]:

     The poor patient knew at once his master's tongue, and lifting up one of his eyes, the other being stiff and barkened down, said in a melancholy voice, "Ah, master, do you think I'll get better?"

   • 1908, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, or, The astrologer:

     "The best way's to let the blood barken upon the cut — that saves plasters, hinney."

2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To tan or dye with bark.
   • 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. 1., Illustrated‎^[2]:

     "And it wad far better become ye, Mr. Saddletree," continued his helpmate, "since ye say ye hae skeel o' the law, to try if ye can do onything for Effie Deans, puir thing, that's lying up in the tolbooth yonder, cauld, and hungry, and comfortless--A servant lass of ours, Mr. Butler, and as innocent a lass, to my thinking, and as usefu' in the shop--When Mr. Saddletree gangs out,--and ye're aware he's seldom at hame when there's ony o' the plea-houses open,--poor Effie used to help me to tumble the bundles o' barkened leather up and down, and range out the gudes, and suit a' body's humours--And troth, she could aye please the customers wi' her answers, for she was aye civil, and a bonnier lass wasna in Auld Reekie.

References

“barken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Banker, banker

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barkən/, [ˈb̥ɑːɡ̊n̩]

Noun

barken c

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of bark

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑrkən

Noun

barken

1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of bark

Anagrams

• braken

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Middle English

Verb

barken

1. Alternative form of berken

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

barken m

1. definite singular of bark

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

barken m

1. definite singular of bark

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Swedish

Noun

barken

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of bark

Anagrams

• banker