Carking
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Carking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of cark.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of cark.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Wearying, distressing (of care, or similar words).
- (archaic) Wearying; distress.
Example Sentences
What anxious cares and carkings have gnaw'd thy Breast, when Ravens and dumb Creatures have committed themselves to God's Wisdom and Goodness?
After mutual protestations of friendship and regard, he […] took his leave in a strange perplexity of mind, occasioned by the images of love, intruding upon the remonstrances of carking care.
For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
Word Forms
- carkings
Related Words
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