Noun: barking
| Singular | barking |
| Plural | barkings |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time:]
Nouns inflected like barking
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English berkyng, berking, berkynge, equivalent to bark + -ing. See: Middle English Nouns '
berkyng'.