Clues for the word "BARK"
We've had 130 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 162 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 01, 2025.
Definition of bark
- v. t. - To strip the bark from; to peel.
- v. t. - To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
- v. t. - To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
- v. t. - To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
- v. i. - To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
- v. i. - To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- n. - The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
- n. - Alt. of Barque
Referring Clues
- Yap
- Kennel cry
- Boxer's comeback?
- Intruder alert?
- Burglar's deterrent, maybe
- Burglar's worry, maybe
- Initials may be carved in it
- First alert, often
- Intruder's deterrent, maybe
- Tree hugger?
- Cinnamon source
- Give orders like a drill sergeant
- It may be worse than a bite
- Bowwow
- Brusque response
- Fir coat?
- Cork, essentially
- Place where initials can be carved
- Tree-hugging surface
- Kennel call
- Tree's protective layer
- "Woof!," e.g.
- "Speak" response
- Lab warning
- Warning from a doghouse
- Cork, actually
- Oak finish?
- Tree part
- Dogwood covering, appropriately
- Hound sound
- Say "Arf!"
- Spaniel sound
- Pound sound
- It may act as an intruder alert
- Initials may be carved into it
- Trunk cover
- Cottonwood covering
- Cover in the woods
- Canine complaint
- Cocker's comment?
- Where you might see some initials
- Spot announcement?
- Say "Arf!"
- Dogwood cover, aptly
- Lab alert
- Yelp
- Boxer's call
- Sheet candy
- Sheet candy
- Seal sound
- Fir coat
- Bow-wow
- Small sailing ship
- Say 'bow-wow'
- Fido's utterance
- Tree covering
- Canine sound
- 'Arf' sound
- ___ beetle (orchard pest)
- Certain traditional medicine source
- Source of cinnamon spice
- Lab output?
- Oak overcoat
- Dog's warning
- Dog's greeting
- Sound from the kennel
- Medium for love letters?
- Tree feature
- Sound from a spaniel
- Source of cinnamon
- Scrape one's shin
- "Arf!" or "Woof!"
- Communicate like a drill sergeant
- Sound from a hound
- Announce a visitor, dog-style
- Conifer covering
- Kennel sound
- Worse-than-one's-bite quality
- Lab report?
- Request for Alpo?
- Canine comment
- Dog noise
- Outer cover of a birch
- Sound from a dog
- Dog's sound
- Dogs do it
- What dogs do
- Where cinnamon comes from
- Tree's 'skin'
- Outer covering of a tree
- Woof or arf
- Bay
- Loudly advertise second-class anti-flood construction
- Outside of a tree
- Bay with a sailing ship
- Sound of dog - protector of trunks
- Covering of tree trunk
- Heading for Bristol on one vessel or another
- Sound from a pound
- Skin of tree
- Animal utterance involving trunk?
- Outer coating of vessel
- Vessel, black vessel
- Animal sound - layer protecting tree trunk
- White part of a white birch
- Tree coating
- Woof
- What dogs do around trees
- Tree covering second old boat
- Vocalisation of friendship, when separated
- Dog sound
- Warning from 69-Across
- Response to "Speak!"
- Outer cover of a tree
- Boxer's comeback?
- Dog's noise
- Fir coat?
- Lab alert?
- Tree cover
- Tree part that yields cinnamon
- Say something angrily when you scratch yourself on
- Outermost tree layer
- Something produced by a dogwood tree ... or a dog
- Lassie's call
- Shelter sound
- Speak in a husky voice?
- Dog's cry
- It grows on trees
- Chihuahua's alert
- Give orders loudly and curtly
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2025
- New York Times - July 10, 2025
- New York Times - July 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 03, 2024
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- LA Times - February 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 29, 2023
- New York Times - November 19, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 06, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2023
- New York Times - February 22, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 10, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 08, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - September 02, 2022
- LA Times - July 17, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - December 14, 2017
- Mirror Quick - December 01, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2017
- Netword - November 15, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 08, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 30, 2017
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