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yark

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/jɑːk/ (UK)

Definition of yark

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To make ready; prepare.
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To make ready; prepare.
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
  3. (obsolete, transitive)To set open; open.
  4. To bind or draw (especially leather or stitches) tight.
    “[...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]”
  5. To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
  6. To crack (a whip).
    “he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France.”

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Etymology

From Middle English ȝarken, ȝerken, from Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), Proto-West Germanic *garwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *garwakōną (“to prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to grab, take, rake”), equivalent to yare + -k. Related to Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”), ġearu (“prepared, ready, equipped, complete, finished, yare”). More at yare.

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