Results for bark

Definitions of bark:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To yelp like a dog: to clamor. TO BARK UP THE WRONG TREE, to mistake one's object: to pursue the wrong course to obtain it. In hunting, a dog drives a squirrel or other game into a tree, where by barking he attracts its attention until the hunter arrives. Sometimes the game escapes, or the dog is deceived, and barks up the wrong tree.

part of speech: verb

To peel or strip off bark.

part of speech: noun

The peculiar noise or clamour of a dog.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To utter a sharp, short sound like the noise made by a dog; to cough.

part of speech: verb

To make the noise of a dog.

part of speech: noun

Barque.

part of speech: verb transitive

To strip or peal the bark from. - TO BARK A SQUIRREL, to strike with a rifle ball the bark on the upper side of a branch on which the animal sits, so that the concussion kills it without mutilation. ( Amer.).

part of speech: noun

A three- masted vessel; any small boat or vessel; the covering of the trunk, branches, stems, etc., of trees and other plants; the sound or cry made by dogs, or a sound resembling it.

part of speech: noun

The outer rind or covering of a tree.

part of speech: noun

The noise made by a dog, wolf, etc.

part of speech: verb transitive

To remove by stripping; to scrape the skin from; to tan by means of an infusion of bark.

part of speech: noun

The outside covering of a tree.

Usage examples for bark:

• Let Trouble be our watch dog, and we can be in camp and he can bark and scare something. "The Curlytops on Star Island", Howard R. Garis

• Each moment she expected to see the little bark issue from out of the shadows of the land, into the sheet of brightness which stretched nearly to the cruiser. "The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas", James Fenimore Cooper

• It shall take me bark "The Mynns' Mystery", George Manville Fenn

• Red and other Bark "A Portrait of Old George Town", Grace Dunlop Ecker