Yarkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 ȝarken, ȝerken, from 古期英語 ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), Proto-West Germanic *garwakōn, equivalent to yare +‎ -k. Related to 古期英語 ġearc (“ready, active, quick”), ġearu (“prepared, ready, equipped, complete, finished, yare”). More at yare.

動詞

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To make ready; prepare.
2. (Can we verify this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
3. (Can we verify this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To set open; open.

派生語

• yarking

語源 2

Uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare jerk, etc.

別の表記

• yerk

動詞

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

1. (transitive) To bind or draw (especially leather or stitches) tight.
   • 1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland:

     [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]

2. (transitive) To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
3. (transitive) To crack (a whip).
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:

     he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France.

アナグラム

• aryk, kray, Kary, kary-, raky, Kyra, Kray