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Barked

Bark \Bark\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Barking.]

  1. To strip the bark from; to peel.

  2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

  3. To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

  4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

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barked

vb. (en-past of: bark)

Usage examples of "barked".

He barked with fury, and before his master could restrain him, he had plunged a second time into the lake.

Some of these trees lay on the ground, and they had only to be barked, which was the most difficult thing of all, owing to the imperfect tools which the settlers possessed.

Top barked angrily, and Neb, who was looking for the first steps, uttered a cry.

Neither Top nor Jup, who accompanied him, ever betrayed by their behavior that there was anything strange there, and yet more than once again the dog barked at the mouth of the well, which the engineer had before explored without result.

The officer barked an oath and the blade leaped clean of the scabbard.

From the other side of the fence he barked madly, loud enough to raise the dead from here to the city.

The Lab had barked and danced excitedly at the appearance of company while Ansel had streaked into the living room to hide beneath the couch and peer out suspiciously.

Top still barked, and by his going and coming, seemed to invite his master to follow him into the forest.

But at that moment, Top barked angrily, and Neb, who was looking for the first steps, uttered a cry.

Harding raised the inner latch of the gate and was about to push it back, when Top barked loudly.

Top still barked, and Jup, running towards the dog, uttered shrill cries.

Moreau was just coming up, his face pale and firm, and the dog at his hand barked at me.

We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply.

With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed them in the air with vicious shakes.

Nettuno barked audibly, and his master answered with another shout, for the sympathy of man in his kind is inextinguishable.