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bark (countable and uncountable, plural barks)

1. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
2. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

Verb

bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)

1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
3. To girdle.
4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

Etymology 3

From Middle English barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek ????? (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ????? (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian b?jr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

Doublet of barge and barque.

Alternative forms

Noun

bark (plural barks)

1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
2. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
3. (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.