LekhoriLekhoriTo be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
A noxious or corroding worry.
His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
The state of being filled with worry.
A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).
From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old En...
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