Cark

From Middle English carken ("to be anxious"), from Old English carcian, becarcian ("to be anxious, be anxious about, care for, take charge of, look after"), from car- ("care") + formative -cian.

Full definition of cark

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
• 1831, Adam Clarke, VI p. 600Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
• SpenserHis heavy head, devoid of careful cark.
• MotherwellFling cark and care aside.
• R. D. BlackmoreFreedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

From caulk

Verb

1. Eye dialect of caulk

Anagrams

• rack