different between barking vs barling

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??k??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k??
• Hyphenation: bark?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English berkyng, berkande, equivalent to bark +? -ing.

Verb

barking

1. present participle of bark

Derived terms

• barking dogs seldom bite

Adjective

barking (comparative more barking, superlative most barking)

1. Who or that barks or bark.

2. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad.

   Synonyms: three stops short of Dagenham; see also Thesaurus:insane

Etymology 2

From Middle English berkyng, berking, berkynge, equivalent to bark +? -ing.

Noun

barking (plural barkings)

1. The action of the verb to bark.
   • 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time

     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.

Translations

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• braking

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *barling, diminutive of Middle English bar, bor (“boar”), equivalent to boar +? -ling. Compare Scots bar, bare, bair (“boar”).

Noun

barling (plural barlings)

1. (Britain dialectal) The smallest pig in a litter; runt.

Etymology 2

From Middle English barling, berling, equivalent to bar +? -ling. Likely of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish bärling (“pole”).

Noun

barling (plural barlings)

1. (rare or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pole.
   • 1970, Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying - Volume 2:

     A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres.

   • 1981, Ann Hughes, W. R. Owens, Seventeenth-century England, a Changing Culture:

     [...] one pair of fetters, one pair of couplings, 2 barlings [poles], 2s 6d; one saddle, one bridle, one panel, 12s; one corn hutch and 1 chaff bin, 6s 8d; one plough, one pair of harness and one coulter, 2 plough sha-[rest torn] with chains, 14s.

   • 2005, V. D. Golubchikova, Z. Í. Khvtísíashvílí, E. R. Akbal?i?a?n, Severnai?a? ?nt?s?iklopedii?a?:

     On shallow waters they moved upstream using small barlings; [...]

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