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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(dialectal, possibly obsolete) Stiff, rigid, hard to work (e.g. with a needle or plough)..
His Hands would be as hard, dry and starky, as if he had wrought for his Living, at Cleaving of Wood.
if the ground be so dry and starky, that eight oxen and an horse must be put to the plough, so much the better; […]
Use starky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Starky means (dialectal, possibly obsolete) Stiff, rigid, hard to work (e.g. with a needle or plough)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His Hands would be as hard, dry and starky, as if he had wrought for his Living, at Cleaving of Wood.
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