Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
barked
simple past tense and past participle of bark
• Drabek, bedark, braked, debark
Source: Wiktionary
Bark, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barked (p. pr. & vb. n. Barking.]
1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
3. To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
Bark, v. i. Etym: [OE. berken, AS. beorcan; akin to Icel. berkja, and prob. to E. break.]
1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.
Bark, n.
Definition: The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
Bark, Barque, n. Etym: [F. barque, fr. Sp. or It. barca, fr. LL. barca for barica. See Barge.]
1. Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.