chark

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Charcoal; coke.

   “... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...”

2. isim A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
3. isim A wine glass.

   “At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.”

4. isim A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.

   “A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.”

5. fiil To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

   “The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues eſſentially the ſame until the preſent moment.”

6. fiil To make a grating sound.

   “The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.”