The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yark \Yark\, v. t. & i. To yerk. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive UK dialectal English) To make ready; prepare. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To set open; open. Etymology 2
alt. 1 To draw (stitches etc.) tight. 2 To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip. 3 To crack (a whip). vb. 1 To draw (stitches etc.) tight. 2 To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip. 3 To crack (a whip).
Usage examples of "yark".
He fears that the Feast of Yuleki, the Yark Angel, may be a time when he could be drawn back to his true realm, never to return.
Noow Yark and settle down with someone who could give her a houseful of kids and an automatic dishwasher, a night at the picture show once a month and a lifetime subscription to Better Homes and Gardens.
Sunnydale was on the Hellmouth, a portal to the underworld that was apt to yark up all kinds of demonic nasties with zero notice.
Ruby Bee breathed reverently, imagining the framed photos on the barroom wall, just like in those fancy Noow Yark restaurants.
Here and there, rickety wharves thrust into the bay, pelicans perched on the pilings, studying the water like German university professors in grave silence, and gulls yarking and quarreling like an illmannered rabble in a lower-class apartment-building in some Paris backstreet.
Not his deep-throated bark, the one he usually saved for deer who scouted our back field or the raccoons that dared come sniffing around the stoop, but a series of high, yarking yips I had never heard before.
On the other is Lucky's Tavern, where an old woman with bowlegs (her name is Bertha Van Dusen, if you care) is currently bent over with her hands planted on her large knees, yarking a bellyful of Kingsland Old-Time Lager into the gutter.
Go down to Nunny Bag Cove and talk to those fellers, Uncle Shag Dismal and Alvin Yark and those fellers.