cark

Meanings

1. To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
2. To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
3. To labor anxiously.

1. A noxious or corroding worry.
2. The state of being filled with worry.

1. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

1. A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).

Etymology

From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k. The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.