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a tree's armor, a dog's opinion, and a fever cure all share one name
means Bark is the protective outer layer of a tree, or the sharp explosive sound a dog makes — and, less commonly, a small sailing ship.
from This is really three words wearing one coat. The tree's covering comes from Old Norse 'börkr,' brought over by Scandinavian settlers. The dog's bark is native English, from Old English 'beorcan,' a verb that imitates the sound itself. The ship called a 'bark' (or 'barque') sailed in from Latin 'barca,' a small boat, by way of French. The 'fever cure' nod in the essence points to cinchona bark, source of quinine — so the medicinal sense rides along on the tree word. Same spelling, three separate journeys, no shared family.
- aspirin source
- willow bark gave us salicylic acid centuries ago
- cinnamon truth
- the spice is literally peeled and dried tree bark
- cork giant
- cork oaks regrow stripped bark for a century
- dog mystery
- wild wolves rarely bark; dogs evolved it for humans
bark of the titanic — the white star line ship that sank in 1912 in the north atlantic
bark endeavour — captain james cook's ship that explored australia and the pacific in 1768-1771
bark charles w morgan — the last wooden whaling ship, launched in 1841 and preserved in mystic, connecticut