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wark

noun
/wɔːk/UK/wɔɹk/US

Etymology

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

  1. derived from *werǵ-✻
  2. inherited from *warkiz✻
  3. inherited from wærc
  4. inherited from werk

Definitions

  1. Pain

    Pain; ache.

  2. To be in pain

    To be in pain; ache.

  3. Work.

    • That September (1582) in time of vacance, my uncle Mr. Andrew, Mr. Thomas Buchanan and I, hearing that Mr. George Buchanan was weak, and his history under the press, passed over to Edinburgh anes errand to visite him, and to see the wark.
    • We'dn done a pratty day or two's wark afore t' sodgers geet at us.
    • “Mair wark," replied Tibbie, looking round on her well-kept pans and candlesticks.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A building.

      • They speak in high terms of "his extraordiner panes and grait cair he had in that Wark, baith by his advyce, and in the building of the same.
      • And because the said Thomas Fallisdaill and John Semple ar alreddy enterit to the said wark, [ and ] coft materiallis as thai declairit, and ressauit ane pairt of the said taxatioun;

    2. A surname.

    3. A village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England, otherwise known as Wark on…

      A village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England, otherwise known as Wark on Tyne (OS grid ref NY8677).

    4. A small village in Carham parish, north Northumberland, otherwise known as Wark on Tweed…

      A small village in Carham parish, north Northumberland, otherwise known as Wark on Tweed (OS grid ref NT8238).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA