present participle and gerund of bark
Clipping of barking mad.
He’s going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking!
The action of the verb to bark.
Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).
A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).
From Middle English berkyng, berkande, equivalent to bark + -ing.
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