different between yark vs yarm

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /j??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?arken, ?erken, from Old English ?earcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”), from Proto-Germanic *garwak?n? (“to prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to grab, take, rake”), equivalent to yare +? -k. Related to Old English ?earc (“ready, active, quick”), ?earu (“prepared, ready, equipped, complete, finished, yare”). More at yare.

Verb

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To make ready; prepare.
   • 1881, Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland:

     [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark, and leather to bark, [...]

2. (transitive, obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To set open; open.

Derived terms

• yarking

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain, probably originally imitative; compare jerk etc.

Alternative forms

• yerk

Verb

yark (third-person singular simple present yarks, present participle yarking, simple past and past participle yarked)

1. To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
2. To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
3. To crack (a whip).
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:

     he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter], as cunningly as any Carter in France.

Anagrams

• Kary, Kray, Kyra, kary-, kray

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?armen, ?ermen, from Old English gyrman, ?ierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *germijan? (“to bleat”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”).

Verb

yarm (third-person singular simple present yarms, present participle yarming, simple past and past participle yarmed)

1. (Britain dialectal) To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
2. (Britain dialectal) To scold; grumble.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?arm, from ?armen.

Noun

yarm (plural yarms)

1. (Britain dialectal) An outcry; noise.

Anagrams

• ARMY, Army, Mary, Mayr, Myra, army, mary

Tocharian B

Noun

yarm

1. measure, measurement