A Quick and Simple Dictionary

bark

1. Noun.  (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
2. Noun.  (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
3. Noun.  The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
4. Verb.  To strip the bark from; to peel.
5. Verb.  To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
6. Verb.  To girdle.
7. Verb.  To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
8. Verb.  (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
9. Verb.  (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To speak sharply.
11. Noun.  The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
12. Noun.  A similar sound made by some other animals.
13. Noun.  (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
14. Noun.  (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
15. Noun.  (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
16. Noun.  (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.