cark
Definition of cark
-ed/-ing/-s
transitive verb
: to burden with care or anxiety : vex worry trouble fate had not smiled on him … he was beset by carking troubles and anxieties — Max Beerbohm
intransitive verb
1 : to be anxious or troubled : fret a covetous man … carking about his bags — Isaac Barrow
2 : to labor anxiously why for sluggards cark and moil? — Charles Kingsley
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Origin and Etymology of cark
Middle English carken, literally, to load, burden, from Old North French carquier, from Late Latin carricare
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Origin and Etymology of cark
Middle English, literally, load, burden, from Old North French carque, from carquier, verb
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