Wark
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wark¹
- /wɔːk/ UK
- /wɔɹk/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k
Where it comes from
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.
noun warks
- Pain; ache.
wark²
- /wɔːk/ UK
- /wɔɹk/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k
Where it comes from
From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.
verb warks · warking · warked
- To be in pain; ache.
wark³
- /wɔːk/ UK
- /wɔɹk/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k
Where it comes from
See work.
noun warks
- 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.
- A building. 'Yet this imposition,' says Nicoll, 'seemed not to thrive; for at the same instant God frae the heavens declared his anger by sending thunder, and unheard tempests, and storms, and inundations of water, whilk destroyed their common mills, dams, and warks, to the town's great charges and expenses.' E
Wark⁴
proper noun
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England, otherwise known as Wark on Tyne (OS grid ref NY8677).
- A small village in Carham parish, north Northumberland, otherwise known as Wark on Tweed (OS grid ref NT8238).
