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▪ I. barking, vbl. n.1|ˈbɑːkɪŋ|
[f. bark v.1]
1. The utterance of a dog's sharp explosive cry.
c1300K. Alis. 4966 From the brest to the grounde Men hy ben, abouen houndes. Berkyng of houndes hy habbe. 1684Burnet tr. More's Utop. 122 What pleasure..in hearing the barking and howling of Dogs? 1795Southey Occas. Pieces iii. Wks. II. 222 His barkings loud and quick.
b. transf. Harsh coughing.
1813Examiner 1 Feb. 75/1 The play went on, amidst croaking, squeaking, barking.
2. fig. Angry or assailing outcry.
1549Olde Erasm. Par. 1st Tim. iv. 11 Feare not any mens barkinges. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art 35 To launch out into sudden barking at the first faults you see.
▪ II. ˈbarking, vbl. n.2
[f. bark v.2 + -ing1.]
1. Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning.
c1440Promp. Parv. 25 Barkynge of lethyr, frunicio. 1865Intell. Observ. No. 38. 107 [The] Barking the nets of the fishermen.
2. The action of stripping off bark from trees; the cutting away of a ring of bark, so as to kill the tree, otherwise called ring-barking. barking-irons: tools used for this purpose.
1545Act 37 Hen. VIII, vi. §1 Barking of Apple-trees. 1773Barnard in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 218 Directing the falling and barking of a large quantity of timber. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 Here were a draw-shave, a cross-cut saw..barking irons, a scythe. 1878P. Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 71 In order to blight and kill a whole forest..it is not necessary to fell every tree, but only..to perform the operation of barking. 1884Australasian 8 Nov. 875/1 In ring-barking a belt of bark about a foot in width is taken off the tree.
▪ III. ˈbarking, ppl. a.1
[f. bark v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Uttering barks; ‘giving tongue,’ yelping.
1552Huloet s.v. Addition, A barking dogge. 1842Tennyson Day-Dream 136 Barking dogs and crowing cocks.
2. a. transf. Uttering harsh, rough, or angry sounds, like a dog's barking; harsh-sounding.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 258 The rude and barking language of the Affricans. c1800Kirke White Christm.-Day 36 He had words To soothe the barking waves.
b. barking-bird, the Pteroptochus Tarnu, of Chiloe, so named from its voice; barking deer, the Indian muntjac, Cervulus muntjac, found in India, Burma, and Tibet; so named from its call; barking iron (slang), a pistol; barking spider (see quot. 1952); barking wolf U.S. = coyote.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xiii. (1873) 288 An allied species is called by the natives ‘Guidguid,’ and by the English the barking-bird.
1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 742/2 The barking deer or muntjac (Cervulus vaginalis). 1898Geogr. Jrnl. XI. 502 The small barking deer, called ‘pause’ by the natives. 1939A. Keith Land below Wind xiv. 259 There is no meat as sweet as barking deer.
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Barking Irons, pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog. (Irish). 1825Paulding John Bull in Amer. 56 Seeing the barking iron [he] shrunk back.
1847Le Fanu T. O'Brien 63 Put up your barking-iron, and no more noise. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Jan. 21/4 The barking spider of Central Australia and other stridulating species can probably hear quite well. 1952A. G. Mitchell in Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. Suppl. 790/1 Barking spider, a large reddish-brown spider of Central Australia, said to produce a barking or whistling sound.
1826J. D. Godman Amer. Nat. Hist. I. 260 The Prairie or Barking Wolf..frequents the prairies..of the west. 1867Amer. Naturalist I. 289 The Prairie or Barking Wolf (Canis latrans, Say), is by far the most abundant carnivorous animal in Arizona, as it is also in almost every part of the West.
3. fig. Raising clamorous outcry, noisily aggressive.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vii. 205, I stop thy currish barking chops. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. Wks. (1851) 40 His barking curses, and Excommunications. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 21 Bread and salt can appease the wayfarer's barking stomach.
▪ IV. ˈbarking, ppl. a.2
[f. bark v.2 + -ing2.]
That ‘barks’; following the trade of a tanner.
c1600Rob. Hood (Ritson) xxxv. 39 Barking tanner's sons. |