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▪ I. ˈcarking, vbl. n. Obs. or arch.
[f. cark v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb cark; grieving, being anxious; trouble, solicitude; anxious toil.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxxxvii. 844 They which are maried..must needes be giuen ouer to many cares and carkings. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. vi. (1640) 73 Without any further carking and perplexity of mind. 1659Gentl. Call. v. 414 Those carkings and solicitudes to which needier persons are exposed. 1691E. Taylor Behmen's Threef. Life xvii. 312 Distrustful carking and toiling. 1861P. Young Daily Read. ccxvi. 75 With all our carking and caring, we cannot increase our stature.
▪ II. carking, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.|ˈkɑːkɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That carks.
1. An attribute of care, or the like: Burdening, distressing, grieving, wearing, fretting.
c1565T. Robinson Mary Magd. lxviii, Solace in her brest no place can finde, For carking care doth all delights together binde. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. i, Ate up with carking care & penurie. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop lxiv, Some carking care that would not be driven away.
2. Of persons:
a. Fretting, anxious;
b. Toiling, moiling;
c. Miserly, niggardly.
1567Drant Horace Epist. ii. C iij, Duke Nestor, sillie carking segge. 1579Twyne Physicke agst. Fort. ii. lxxxiii. 266 a, A labouryng and carkyng man, whose lyfe ought to be a patterne of all quietnesse. 1600Heywood 1 Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 21 Whose recreant limbs are notcht with gaping scars, Thicker than any carking craftsmans score. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xv. 402 Who are so extremely carking and caring about this Life. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. lxxi. 331 Immensely rich and immensely carking. 1750Berkeley Patriotism §22 Ibycus is a carking, griping, closefisted fellow. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 62 (Jam.) List'ning to the chirp O' wandring mouse, or moudy's carkin hoke. |