Wark

//wɔː(ɹ)k//

Definitions

nounwarks

1
Pain; ache.
Similar
agony pang misery
2
Work.
That September (1582) in time of vacance, my uncle Mr. Andrew, Mr. Thomas Buchanan and I, hearing that Mr. George Buchanan was weak, and his history under the press, passed over to Edinburgh anes errand to visite him, and to see the wark.
Similar
labour effort

verbwarks · warking · warked

1
To be in pain; ache.
Similar
hurt

name

1
A surname.
2
A village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England, otherwise known as Wark on Tyne (OS grid ref NY8677).
3
A small village in Carham parish, north Northumberland, otherwise known as Wark on Tweed (OS grid ref NT8238).

Word Origin

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Sw...

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