US /wɑrk/ UK /wɑːk/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    pain or ache; to ache (dialectal or archaic)

    His old wound began to wark in the damp cold.

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1 noun · pain or ache; to ache... achepainthrobhurt
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Etymology

From Old English wærc ('pain, ache'), from Proto-Germanic *warkaz; a dialectal northern English and Scots word, cognate with German Werk in some senses but distinct.

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