barkenadj.
Chiefly poetic.
Made or consisting of bark.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or relating to bark
coated1737
barken1755
barky1835
female1849
male1884
1755 T. Forbes in C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 148 Easter Tuesday we embarked..in about 300 Batteaus or Canoes (not barken).
1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. v. 61 Perhaps some tall and tawny hunter..may yet..urge his barken canoe over some cypress-fringed pool.
1864 G. M. Hopkins Pilate in Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 15 Then knot a barken band To hold me quite fix'd in the selfsame plight.
1890 Harper's Mag. Aug. 365 A sword-lunge of assailant thunder Slashed down thy barken mail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
barkenv.
/ˈbɑːk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈbɑrk(ə)n/, Scottish English /ˈbark(ə)n/ Scottish.
1. transitive. To dry up (any sticky daubing) into a hardened crust or bark; to cover or stiffen by this process.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > encrust
barken1513
crust1545
impaste1548
incrustate1570
befur1581
scurf1599
overcrust1603
cake1609
imbake1632
bark1633
encrusta1691
becrust1830
accrust1842
overscurf1881
1513 [implied in: G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. vi. (v) 41 Witht barknit bluide, and puldir. (at barkened adj. 1)].
1827 [implied in: J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 348 Lyin' a' barken'd wi' blood in his coffin. (at barkened adj. 1)].
1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 71 739 Even at breakfast your trout are spoiled. They are barkened with oatmeal.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxiv. 277 A shrewd frost that barkened the blood on my wounds.
2. intransitive. To dry and become a hardened crust.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > become coated with a layer [verb (intransitive)] > form or contract a crust
crustc1430
encrust1726
barken1815
shale1844
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 33 Let the blood barken upon the cut—that saves plaisters.
1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 400 He will barken into bedimmed and shrivelled scaliness.
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