Usually means: Outer protective layer of trees.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. bark: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bark, bark, bark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bark, bark, bark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bark: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bark: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bark, bark: Wordnik
  7. bark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bark: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. bark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bark: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bark: Dictionary.com
  12. bark (n1.), bark (n2.), bark (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. bark: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. BARK (computer), Bark (Jefferson Airplane album), Bark (album), Bark (botany), Bark (company), Bark (dog), Bark (short story collection), Bark (sound), Bark (utterance), Bark, Bark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bark: Rhymezone
  18. bark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Bark: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. bark: Free Dictionary
  22. bark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Bark, bark: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. bark: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bark: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bark: Wiktionary
  27. bark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bark (boat), Bark (botany), Bark (ship), bark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bark (botany), bark: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BARK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bark: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bark, bark, bark, bark: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.A.R.K, bark: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bark: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See barked as well.)

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verb:  (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
verb:  (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
verb:  (transitive) To speak sharply.
noun:  The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
noun:  (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
noun:  (music) The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
noun:  (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
noun:  Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
noun:  The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
noun:  The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
verb:  To strip the bark from; to peel.
verb:  To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
verb:  To girdle.
verb:  To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
noun:  (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
noun:  (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
noun:  (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) An Irish person.

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