bark

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).intransitive

• The neighbour's dog is always barking.
• The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.intransitive

• And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.
• Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.

To speak sharply.transitive

• The sergeant barked an order.

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

An abrupt loud vocal utterance.figuratively

• Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.

The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.

(video games) A short, repeatable, and unobtrusive voiceline spoken by an NPC.countable

The sound of a dog barking.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants.countableuncountable

• Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.

Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.countableuncountable

Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.countableuncountable

The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.countableuncountable

• This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.

The envelopment or outer covering of anything.countableuncountable

Woodchips.USWesterncountable

To strip the bark from; to peel.

• Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.

• I barked my shins climbing the fence.

To girdle.

To cover or enclose with bark, or as with bark.

• to bark the roof of a hut

A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.obsolete

• Nothing then remained for them but to commit their bark to the wind and waves.

A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.poetic

• It is the star to every wandering bark
• We know not where we go, or what sweet dream May pilot us through caverns strange and fair Of far and pathless passion, while the stream Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear, Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air; […]

A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

• Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.

An Irish person.obsoleteslang