carking
English
Carking
The word means "worrisome" or "burdensome." It has been called the present participle of a verb, "cark." As a noun, a "cark" is a burden or responsibility. It was used by Herman Melville in "Moby Dick" in Chapter 35: "The Mast-Head," just four paragraphs from the end. The sentence in which it appears reads: "For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth . . . ."
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