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Yark

//jɑːk// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make ready; prepare. UK, dialectal, transitive

    "[...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]"

  2. 2
    To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
  3. 3
    To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for. obsolete, transitive
  4. 4
    To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
  5. 5
    To set open; open. obsolete, transitive
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  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare jerk etc.

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