Bark
To strip the bark from; to peel.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
Alt. of Barque
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Bark Quotations
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Dave Barry
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Bob Schieffer
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
William Henry Ashley
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
Tucker Carlson
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
Casey Affleck
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
Aime Cesaire
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
Frank James
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
Jerry Reed
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
Malcolm Lowry
My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.
Gerald B. H. Solomon
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
Matthew Green
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
Mark Tobey
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Bark Translations
bark in Afrikaans is skil
bark in Danish is bark
bark in Dutch is boomschors, schors
bark in Finnish is haukkua
bark in German is Rinde, Bellen, Rinde, Borke
bark in Italian is abbaio, corteccia, scorza
bark in Latin is crusta
bark in Norwegian is bjeff, bjeffe
bark in Portuguese is casca
bark in Spanish is ladrido, corteza, ladrar
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