carking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cark

adj

1. (archaic)Wearying, distressing (of care, or similar words).

   “After mutual protestations of friendship and regard, he […] took his leave in a strange perplexity of mind, occasioned by the images of love, intruding upon the remonstrances of carking care.”

   “For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.”

noun

1. (archaic)Wearying; distress.

   “What anxious cares and carkings have gnaw'd thy Breast, when Ravens and dumb Creatures have committed themselves to God's Wisdom and Goodness?”