Crossword clues for barking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bark \Bark\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Barking.]
To strip the bark from; to peel.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
Wiktionary
1 Who or that barks or bark. 2 (context British slang English) Short for barking mad. n. The action of the verb '''to bark'''. v
(present participle of bark English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Barking is a suburban town in England, and forms part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is east of Charing Cross and is one of 35 major centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a fishing and agrarian settlement in the county of Essex and formed an ancient parish. Its economic history is characterised by a shift to market gardening, and industrial development to the south adjacent to the River Thames. The railway station opened in 1854 and has been served by the London Underground since 1908. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, Barking significantly expanded and increased in population, primarily due to the development of the London County Council estate at Becontree in the 1920s, and it became a municipal borough in 1931. It has formed part of Greater London since its annexation in 1965. In addition to an extensive and fairly low-density residential area, the town centre forms a large retail and commercial district, currently a focus for regeneration. The former industrial lands to the south are being redeveloped as Barking Riverside.
Barking is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1994 by Margaret Hodge of the Labour Party.
Barking is a town in London. It may also refer to:
- Bark (sound), the sound made primarily by domesticated dogs for communication
- Municipal Borough of Barking, a historical local government district covering the town of Barking
- Barking, Suffolk, England, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk County
- Barking (UK Parliament constituency), a House of Commons constituency representing the English towns of Barking and Becontree
- Barking Rugby Football Club, an English rugby union club in Barking, London
- Barking (album) (2010), an album by British electronic band Underworld
- Barking (TV series), a UK television comedy sketch show
Barking is the eighth studio album by British electronic group Underworld, released on 2 September 2010. The lead single, " Scribble", produced with Welsh drum and bass producer High Contrast, was released on 28 June 2010. The band released a radio edit of the track for free download on their website on 13 May 2010.
Each track on the album was written by band members Karl Hyde and Rick Smith in Essex, before being sent to producers well known for their contributions to trance, drum and bass and dubstep. The album sees further collaboration with Mark Knight and D. Ramirez, whose 2009 single, "Downpipe", featured lyrics and vocals by Hyde.
Barking received positive reviews from most music critics. The album debuted at number twenty-six on the UK Albums Chart, selling 5,146 copies in its first week.
There are seven slightly modified variations of the cover artwork - depending on edition and format - all created by John Warwicker.
The album is named after Barking, an eastern borough of London.
Barking is a late night sketch comedy show broadcast on Channel 4 in 1998, starring Mackenzie Crook, David Walliams, Omid Djalili, Peter Kay, Dave Lamb, Rhys Thomas, Catherine Tate and Marcus Brigstocke. The series featured up-and-coming comedians, most of whom went on to successful careers.
The show was released on DVD in November 2011.
Usage examples of "barking".
The Helmet Men, seemingly astounded by what had taken place, exchanged quiet comments in their strange barking speech, and began to draw back behind the safety of their gigantic animals.
Quickly Darcy pulled the package from her vest, but in seconds she was cornered, the black Dobermans baring their teeth and barking.
She heard ahead of them the shouts and halloos of a host of men, and the braying, barking, caterwauling, and neighing of a mob of animals.
After all this macho stuff they were getting ordered about by a two-foot midget barking at their kneecaps.
The barking behind me reached a new frenzy and then I knew the mastiff had been let loose, for the sound took on a new, more excited pitch.
He dropped the quivering scrap into the forest below, where mesonychids, alerted by the scent of fresh blood, ran forward with their eerie uncaninelike barking.
A dog barking somewhere, night insects, wind in the foliage, occasionally a guard muttering to another, pots and pans clattering from the early kitchen detail.
Outside, she could hear Portus, Lynn Flewelltng Braknil, and Mercalle barking at their riders.
The sound is called laughing, not barking, and in most cases it is a psychophysical mechanism for the release of minor degrees of tension.
Squadrons of quagga galloped away in ranks, barking like packs of hounds.
He recrossed the farmyard, quieted the dog, which had started barking again, went out on the road bordering on his ditch, and disappeared in the direction of Tourville.
Soon a dozen of the loathsome creatures were scampering along the rocky rim of the gorge, barking to one another and keeping pace with the party as they rode around the steep mountain face toward a shallow draw on the far side.
It took a quarter hour of Dog barking and Septon Meribald knocking on the front gate with his quarter-staff before a woman appeared above them to demand their business.
And against that background of sound, the barking dog sounded like the most natural thing in the world.
The insistent, nagging bang of an unlatched shutter swinging freely in the wind several streets over had set some brainless dog to barking, and Sparhawk lay, still half-bemused by sleep, patiently waiting for the dog to grow wet enough or weary enough of his entertainment to seek his kennel again.