These are the meanings of the letters CLARK when you unscramble them.
- Calk (n.)
A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
- Calk (n.)
An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
- Calk (v. i.)
To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
- Calk (v. i.)
To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
- Calk (v. t.)
To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
- Calk (v. t.)
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
- Calk (v. t.)
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
- Cark (n.)
A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
- Cark (v. i.)
To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
- Cark (v. t.)
To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
- Carl (n.)
A kind of food. See citation, below.
- Carl (n.)
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
- Carl (n.)
Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.
- Lack (interj.)
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
- Lack (n.)
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
- Lack (n.)
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
- Lack (v. i.)
To be in want.
- Lack (v. i.)
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
- Lack (v. t.)
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
- Lack (v. t.)
To blame; to find fault with.
- Lark (n.)
Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
- Lark (v. i.)
A frolic; a jolly time.
- Lark (v. i.)
To catch larks; as, to go larking.
- Lark (v. i.)
To sport; to frolic.
- Rack (a.)
A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
- Rack (a.)
A distaff.
- Rack (a.)
A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
- Rack (a.)
A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
- Rack (a.)
A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
- Rack (a.)
A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Rack (a.)
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
- Rack (a.)
An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument for bending a bow.
- Rack (a.)
An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
- Rack (a.)
That which is extorted; exaction.
- Rack (n.)
A fast amble.
- Rack (n.)
A wreck; destruction.
- Rack (n.)
Same as Arrack.
- Rack (n.)
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
- Rack (n.)
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
- Rack (v.)
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
- Rack (v. i.)
To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
- Rack (v. t.)
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- Rack (v. t.)
To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
- Rack (v. t.)
To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
- Rack (v. t.)
To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- Rack (v. t.)
To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
- Rack (v. t.)
To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.