barke

barke

1. Obsolete spelling of bark.

• Abrek, Baker, Brake, baker, brake, break

From Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Egyptian bꜣjr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbark(ə)/

barke (plural barkys)

1. (rare, Late Middle English) A seafaring vessel.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     It [i.e. love] is the star to every wandering barke
     whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.

• English: barque, bark

• “barke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2018.

barke

1. alternative form of bark

barke

1. alternative form of berken

barke

1. alternative form of barkyn