arkn.

Brit.

/ɑːk/, U.S.

/ɑrk/

Forms: Old English–Middle English arc, Old English–Middle English earc, Old English ærc, erc, erk, ark, Middle English eark, Middle English ( Orm.) arrke, Middle English–1600s ark(e, 1600s arcke, Middle English– ark.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: with Old English arc (earc , ærc , erc , erk ), accusative arce , compare Old Frisian erke , Old High German archa , modern German arche , Old Norse örk (genitive arkar ), Swedish, Danish ark , Gothic and Germanic arka , probably < Latin arca chest, box, coffer; whence Old French arche , also adopted in senses 2, 3, alongside of the native word: see arche n.

1. A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp.

a. in northern dialect a large wooden bin or hutch for storing meal, bread, fruit, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag

arkOE

OE Riddle 61 2 Oft mec fæste bileac freolicu meowle, ides on earce.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18823 Þatt arrke þatt iss wrohht off tre.

1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 136 To þe ordre of Cisteans he gaf two þousand mark.. to lay vp in arke.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. ii. 3 She toke an Arke of redes [ Wyclif, a ionket of resshen; 1388 a leep of segge or seggis].

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. ii. 3 An arke of bul-rushes.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I7 They With Wicker Arks did come To kisse, and beare away The richer Couslips home.

1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 200 The relics of St. Ronan..were put into an ark or shrine.

a.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 175 in Poems (1981) 10 The cheis and meill, in ark and kist.1557 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills i. (1857) 72 Ij gret arke standinge in the nursarie.1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 181 My bairn has tocher of her awin, An ark, an ambry, and a ladle.1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 42 And from the ark at last did take Meal forth for porridge and for cake.

b. figurative. ‘Casket, treasury’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > specifically of immaterial things

arkc1175

garnerc1175

cellara1387

aumbry1477

vein1533

armourya1586

arsenal1593

portmanteau?1602

repository1639

reservoir1690

toy shop1714

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8971 Ure laffdiȝ MaRȝe..leȝȝde itt all..Inn hire þohhtess arrke.

a. spec. in Jewish History. The wooden coffer containing the tables of the law, kept in the Holiest Place of the Tabernacle. Also called Ark of the Covenant, Ark of Testimony. See also arche n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun]

arkc825

shrinec1000

coffera1400

archea1450

cybory1484

c825 Vesp. Ps. cxxxi. 8 Ðu & erc gehalgunge ðinre.

c1000 Ags. Ps. cxxxi. 8 Þu earce eart eall-haligra.

a1300 E.E. Psalter cxxxi. 8 Þou, and arke of þi halinesse.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. vi. 11 Thei putten the arke of God upon the wayn.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 251 Therein An Ark, and in the Ark his Testimony.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. i. 4 The ark, the symbol of the people's unity, was captured by the Philistines.

b. figurative, as in phrases, to touch or lay hands on the ark: to interfere with, treat irreverently, what is held to be sacred; (in reference to 2 Samuel vi. 6.) Applied to something which protects or enshrines a precious possession.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > have or show no reverence [verb (intransitive)]

to touch or lay hands on the ark1842

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 The living arke of the holy Ghost.

1826 E. Everett Address at Charlestown 39 They [Adams and Jefferson] took up the ark of her [their country's] liberties with pure hands, and bore it through in triumph.

1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 83 Laying irreverent hands on the ark of the constitution.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §1. 7 The House of Commons only touched the ark of our property with half a heart.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxiii. 323 The functions which it [the Supreme Court] discharges in guarding the ark of the Constitution.

3. The large covered floating vessel in which Noah was saved at the Deluge; hence figurative a place of refuge. (In 13–14th centuries commonly arche n.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark

arkc950

Noah's ArkOE

arche?c1225

kista1400

ship1422

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge

havenc1225

infleeinga1300

leinda1300

harbourc1300

reseta1325

harbouryc1325

refutec1350

asylec1384

receipta1393

refugec1405

port salut?1407

recept1423

porta1425

receptaclec1425

place (etc.) of refuge?a1439

retreat1481

port haven1509

stelling-place1513

refugie1515

retraict1550

safe haven1555

havening place1563

sanctuarya1568

safe harbour1569

sheepfold1579

subterfuge1593

arka1616

lopeholt1616

latebra1626

asylum1642

creep-hole1646

harbourage1651

reverticle1656

creeping-hole1665

a port in a (also the) storm1714

receptory1856

padded cell1876

funk-hole1900

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 38 Inneode in ærce Noë [Rushw. arkæ, Ags. & Hatt. earce].

c1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Werc [MS. wrec] þe nu an arc.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14542 Drihhtin badd noe gan till & wirrkenn himm an arrke.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. vi. 14 Make to thee an ark [v.r. schip] of planed trees.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 36 There is sure another flood toward, and these couples are comming to the Arke .

1679 Established Test 46 No safety..out of the Ark of their Church.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 129 How spake the Serpent, and where stopp'd the Ark.

1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 139 The United States have been..an ark of refuge to the people of Europe.

4. transferred. A ship, boat, or similar floating vessel; spec. in U.S., a large flat-bottomed boat formerly used on rivers for the transport of produce.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]

shipc725

beamOE

boardOE

bargea1300

steera1300

vessela1300

treea1382

loomc1400

man1473

ark1477

bottom1490

keela1547

riverboat1565

craft1578

pine1592

class1596

flood-bickerer1599

pitchboard1599

stern-bearer1599

wooden horse1599

wooden isle1603

water treader?1615

water house1616

watercraft1618

machine1637

prore1642

lightman1666

embarkation1690

bark1756

prowa1771

Mudian1813

bastiment1823

hooker1823

nymph1876

M.F.V.1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of

sedge-boat1336

shout1395

scout1419

pink1471

punt-boatc1500

palander1524

pram1531

punt1556

bark1598

sword-pink1614

pont1631

schuit1666

pontoon1681

bateau1711

battoe1711

flight1769

scow1780

keel-boat1786

ferry flat1805

ark1809

panga1811

mackinaw boat1812

mudboat1824

pinkie1840

mackinaw1842

sharpie1860

sculling float1874

pass-boat1875

sled1884

scow sloop1885

sharp1891

johnboat1894

ballahoo1902

pram1929

goelette1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying food or water

water ship1653

paddy boat1698

pippiner1725

ark1809

beef-boat1836

forage-boat1848

fruiter1860

fruit-clipper1864

oranger1880

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 90 It pleseth vs that thou go into Pyrre for to make an arke.

1640 J. Yorke Battels in Union of Honour 64 Skilfull navigators, whereof the Admirall in the Arke royall was chiefe.

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 453 Huge loaded arks rush down the boiling tide.

1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 125 The beach is lined with keel boats, large arks for carrying produce, family boats.

1823 Ld. Byron Island i. viii. 14 Commits him to his fragile ark.

†5. An enclosure for catching or confining fish. Obsolete. [So arche in German dialects; and compare German and French arche a coffer-dam.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth

weir839

fish-weirc1000

yair1178

fishgarth1454

eel-bed1483

water frith1584

frith1602

garth1609

fish-lock1661

crawl1682

fish-yard1685

fishing-pen1791

eelery1854

fishing-weir1870

crib1873

ark1883

kiddle1891

1883 Athenæum 2 June 695/3 That Edinburgh had an eel-ark of its own at the east end of the North Loch.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ark-born adj.

ΚΠ

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 435 The ark-born deity, Dionusus.

ark-ship n.

ΚΠ

1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. ii. 43 Christianity..is the ark-ship, the ark of safety.

C2.

ark-full n. an assemblage as numerous and diverse as that which Noah's ark contained.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a variety or varied assemblage

variety1553

heterogeny1838

ark-full1851

montage1934

smorgasbord1948

masala1970

1851 Forbes in Art Jrnl. Illus. Cat. Veg. W. An ark-full of living animals.

ark-net n. a kind of fish-trap (cf. eel-ark in 5).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > other traps

ark-net1613

hawk1669

paidle1824

sea-trap1876

kelong1878

1613 Decree in Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. (1870) 5 714 To place ark-nets and other engines in the said river.

ark-shell n. a species of bivalve mollusc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of

Noah's Ark1713

sot's cap1713

ark-shell1854

1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 268 The Ark-shells of the Palæozoic and secondary strata.

† ark-wold n. Obsolete the wooden sides or beams of the ark.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > of the Ark

ark-wolda1325

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 576 Quan he [sc. Noah] dede him in ðe arche wold.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ark
释义	arkn. Brit. /ɑːk/, U.S. /ɑrk/ Forms: Old English–Middle English arc, Old English–Middle English earc, Old English ærc, erc, erk, ark, Middle English eark, Middle English ( Orm.) arrke, Middle English–1600s ark(e, 1600s arcke, Middle English– ark. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: with Old English arc (earc , ærc , erc , erk ), accusative arce , compare Old Frisian erke , Old High German archa , modern German arche , Old Norse örk (genitive arkar ), Swedish, Danish ark , Gothic and Germanic arka , probably < Latin arca chest, box, coffer; whence Old French arche , also adopted in senses 2, 3, alongside of the native word: see arche n. 1. A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp. a. in northern dialect a large wooden bin or hutch for storing meal, bread, fruit, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag arkOE OE Riddle 61 2 Oft mec fæste bileac freolicu meowle, ides on earce. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18823 Þatt arrke þatt iss wrohht off tre. 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 136 To þe ordre of Cisteans he gaf two þousand mark.. to lay vp in arke. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. ii. 3 She toke an Arke of redes [ Wyclif, a ionket of resshen; 1388 a leep of segge or seggis]. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. ii. 3 An arke of bul-rushes. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I7 They With Wicker Arks did come To kisse, and beare away The richer Couslips home. 1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 200 The relics of St. Ronan..were put into an ark or shrine. a.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 175 in Poems (1981) 10 The cheis and meill, in ark and kist.1557 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills i. (1857) 72 Ij gret arke standinge in the nursarie.1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 181 My bairn has tocher of her awin, An ark, an ambry, and a ladle.1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 42 And from the ark at last did take Meal forth for porridge and for cake. b. figurative. ‘Casket, treasury’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > specifically of immaterial things arkc1175 garnerc1175 cellara1387 aumbry1477 vein1533 armourya1586 arsenal1593 portmanteau?1602 repository1639 reservoir1690 toy shop1714 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8971 Ure laffdiȝ MaRȝe..leȝȝde itt all..Inn hire þohhtess arrke. 2. a. spec. in Jewish History. The wooden coffer containing the tables of the law, kept in the Holiest Place of the Tabernacle. Also called Ark of the Covenant, Ark of Testimony. See also arche n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun] arkc825 shrinec1000 coffera1400 archea1450 cybory1484 c825 Vesp. Ps. cxxxi. 8 Ðu & erc gehalgunge ðinre. c1000 Ags. Ps. cxxxi. 8 Þu earce eart eall-haligra. a1300 E.E. Psalter cxxxi. 8 Þou, and arke of þi halinesse. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. vi. 11 Thei putten the arke of God upon the wayn. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 251 Therein An Ark, and in the Ark his Testimony. View more context for this quotation 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. i. 4 The ark, the symbol of the people's unity, was captured by the Philistines. b. figurative, as in phrases, to touch or lay hands on the ark: to interfere with, treat irreverently, what is held to be sacred; (in reference to 2 Samuel vi. 6.) Applied to something which protects or enshrines a precious possession. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > have or show no reverence [verb (intransitive)] to touch or lay hands on the ark1842 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 The living arke of the holy Ghost. 1826 E. Everett Address at Charlestown 39 They [Adams and Jefferson] took up the ark of her [their country's] liberties with pure hands, and bore it through in triumph. 1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 83 Laying irreverent hands on the ark of the constitution. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §1. 7 The House of Commons only touched the ark of our property with half a heart. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxiii. 323 The functions which it [the Supreme Court] discharges in guarding the ark of the Constitution. 3. The large covered floating vessel in which Noah was saved at the Deluge; hence figurative a place of refuge. (In 13–14th centuries commonly arche n.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun] > Noah's Ark arkc950 Noah's ArkOE arche?c1225 kista1400 ship1422 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge havenc1225 infleeinga1300 leinda1300 harbourc1300 reseta1325 harbouryc1325 refutec1350 asylec1384 receipta1393 refugec1405 port salut?1407 recept1423 porta1425 receptaclec1425 place (etc.) of refuge?a1439 retreat1481 port haven1509 stelling-place1513 refugie1515 retraict1550 safe haven1555 havening place1563 sanctuarya1568 safe harbour1569 sheepfold1579 subterfuge1593 arka1616 lopeholt1616 latebra1626 asylum1642 creep-hole1646 harbourage1651 reverticle1656 creeping-hole1665 a port in a (also the) storm1714 receptory1856 padded cell1876 funk-hole1900 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 38 Inneode in ærce Noë [Rushw. arkæ, Ags. & Hatt. earce]. c1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Werc [MS. wrec] þe nu an arc. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14542 Drihhtin badd noe gan till & wirrkenn himm an arrke. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. vi. 14 Make to thee an ark [v.r. schip] of planed trees. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 36 There is sure another flood toward, and these couples are comming to the Arke . View more context for this quotation 1679 Established Test 46 No safety..out of the Ark of their Church. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 129 How spake the Serpent, and where stopp'd the Ark. 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 139 The United States have been..an ark of refuge to the people of Europe. 4. transferred. A ship, boat, or similar floating vessel; spec. in U.S., a large flat-bottomed boat formerly used on rivers for the transport of produce. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] shipc725 beamOE boardOE bargea1300 steera1300 vessela1300 treea1382 loomc1400 man1473 ark1477 bottom1490 keela1547 riverboat1565 craft1578 pine1592 class1596 flood-bickerer1599 pitchboard1599 stern-bearer1599 wooden horse1599 wooden isle1603 water treader?1615 water house1616 watercraft1618 machine1637 prore1642 lightman1666 embarkation1690 bark1756 prowa1771 Mudian1813 bastiment1823 hooker1823 nymph1876 M.F.V.1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of sedge-boat1336 shout1395 scout1419 pink1471 punt-boatc1500 palander1524 pram1531 punt1556 bark1598 sword-pink1614 pont1631 schuit1666 pontoon1681 bateau1711 battoe1711 flight1769 scow1780 keel-boat1786 ferry flat1805 ark1809 panga1811 mackinaw boat1812 mudboat1824 pinkie1840 mackinaw1842 sharpie1860 sculling float1874 pass-boat1875 sled1884 scow sloop1885 sharp1891 johnboat1894 ballahoo1902 pram1929 goelette1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying food or water water ship1653 paddy boat1698 pippiner1725 ark1809 beef-boat1836 forage-boat1848 fruiter1860 fruit-clipper1864 oranger1880 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 90 It pleseth vs that thou go into Pyrre for to make an arke. 1640 J. Yorke Battels in Union of Honour 64 Skilfull navigators, whereof the Admirall in the Arke royall was chiefe. 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 453 Huge loaded arks rush down the boiling tide. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 125 The beach is lined with keel boats, large arks for carrying produce, family boats. 1823 Ld. Byron Island i. viii. 14 Commits him to his fragile ark. †5. An enclosure for catching or confining fish. Obsolete. [So arche in German dialects; and compare German and French arche a coffer-dam.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth weir839 fish-weirc1000 yair1178 fishgarth1454 eel-bed1483 water frith1584 frith1602 garth1609 fish-lock1661 crawl1682 fish-yard1685 fishing-pen1791 eelery1854 fishing-weir1870 crib1873 ark1883 kiddle1891 1883 Athenæum 2 June 695/3 That Edinburgh had an eel-ark of its own at the east end of the North Loch. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. ark-born adj. ΚΠ 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 435 The ark-born deity, Dionusus. b. ark-ship n. ΚΠ 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. ii. 43 Christianity..is the ark-ship, the ark of safety. C2. ark-full n. an assemblage as numerous and diverse as that which Noah's ark contained. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a variety or varied assemblage variety1553 heterogeny1838 ark-full1851 montage1934 smorgasbord1948 masala1970 1851 Forbes in Art Jrnl. Illus. Cat. Veg. W. An ark-full of living animals. ark-net n. a kind of fish-trap (cf. eel-ark in 5). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > other traps ark-net1613 hawk1669 paidle1824 sea-trap1876 kelong1878 1613 Decree in Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. (1870) 5 714 To place ark-nets and other engines in the said river. ark-shell n. a species of bivalve mollusc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Arcade > member of Noah's Ark1713 sot's cap1713 ark-shell1854 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 268 The Ark-shells of the Palæozoic and secondary strata. † ark-wold n. Obsolete the wooden sides or beams of the ark. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > of the Ark ark-wolda1325 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 576 Quan he [sc. Noah] dede him in ðe arche wold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † arkv. Etymology: < ark n. Obsolete. transitive. To shut up in an ark. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure casea1525 to case up1566 chamber1568 bag1570 embower1580 cistern1587 bower1599 casket1603 entemple1603 immould1610 incavern1611 incave1615 chest1616 enchest1632 intrunk1633 labyrinth1637 caverna1640 cabinetc1642 ark1644 to box in1745 lantern1789 cauldron1791 cave1816 pocket1833 castle1871 1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 206 Ark it up like Israels manna. 1845 St. Louis Reveille 4 Aug. I stood by while all the animals were arked. Derivatives arked adj. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. i. 1 Arked Noah, and seauen with him. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila v. xii. 69 How then, from Flood of Tears may' an Arkt Dove try..to descry That Land, unknown to Nature? Vast Eternitie! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c825v.1586
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arkn.

Compounds

† arkv.

Derivatives