Noun: barke
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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It [i.e. love] is the star to every wandering barke
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whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
Etymology
From Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare), from Egyptian bꜣjr. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
βᾶρις'.
Verbs referencing "barke"
English Nouns
barque.
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