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carking

American  
[kahr-king] / ˈkɑr kɪŋ /

adjective

Archaic.
  1. distressful.


Etymology

Origin of carking

First recorded in 1560–70; cark, -ing 2

Example Sentences

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In Germany itself those prisoners who have returned found only more carking cares.

From Time Magazine Archive

Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house."

From Time Magazine Archive

To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had never dared to voice the carking fear that tightened about his heart at times.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

A carking connoisseur is abusing some effort of an unhappy artist to portray nature.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James