bark
bork
- n tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
- n a noise resembling the bark of a dog
- n a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
- n the sound made by a dog
- v speak in an unfriendly tone
She barked into the dictaphone - v cover with bark
- v remove the bark of a tree
- v make barking sounds
The dogs barked at the stranger - v tan (a skin) with bark tannins
- The colonial era that bark cloth helped usher in also led to a decline in its use, with printed cotton and appliqu quilts replacing tapa in many Pacific ceremonies.
- Taxol, a drug derived from tree bark, is approved to treat ovarian cancer.
- Roiling seas and winds gusting to 40 knots buffeted the bark on its first night out of Bermuda, but when Andrew Freeman, 22, of Wallasey, England, finished his watch at 4 a.