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jark (plural jarks)

1. A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).
   • 1818, Walter Scott, chapter XXIX, in The Heart of Midlothian (The Waverley Novels)‎, volume 2, page 92:

     "This is a jark from Jim Ratcliffe," said the taller, having looked at the bit of paper.

• jarkman

jark (third-person singular simple present jarks, present participle jarking, simple past and past participle jarked)

1. (slang, military, British) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).
   • 1996, Andy McNab, Immediate Action‎, page 365:

     At the end of the day, it was inevitable that the IRA would discover that its weapons were being jarked.

   • 2001, Peter Taylor, Brits:the War Against the IRA‎, page 255:

     'Anna' and 'Mary' were involved in operations that drew on a variety of intelligence data: ‘jarking’; information from agents; […] One of the weapons, perhaps the Armalite, had been ‘jarked’ by the ‘Det’ and tracked for some time.

   • 2010, Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism‎, page 197:

     An especially creative method was known as “jarking,” which involved “the placing of tiny tracking devices on weapons in arms caches so their movements can be followed.”⁸

   • 2010, Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland‎, page 282:

     The homes and safe houses he provided were bugged; the weapons hidden in empty houses were ‘jarked’ so the security forces could keep track of them, and the vehicles used to ferry weapons put under close surveillance.

(track weaponry): Both word and practice became common during the Ulster Troubles (1968-1998).

From jerk.

jark (third-person singular simple present jarks, present participle jarking, simple past and past participle jarked)

1. Pronunciation spelling of jerk.
   • 1996, William Gilmore Simms, Mary Ann Wimsatt, “Bald-Head Bill Bauldy”, in Tales of the South‎, page 323:

     First, I felt a kick in my side, and ribs; then I felt myself pulled and jarked about, by the arms and shoulders; and, when I opened my eyes and straightened myself out, to see what alligator hed got hold of me now, what should I see but a squad of four or five of our own Rigiment, all pulling at me at onst!

• Eric Partridge (2005) “jarking”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1091.
• Toby Harnden, Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh, →ISBN

• jri

From Arabic جَرْي (jary). Doublet of jirk.

jark m

1. verbal noun of jiri: running

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 185

From Proto-Slavic *jьkrà.

jark m inan

1. Alternative form of jerk (“roe”)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “jark”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

jark

1. water

• → Dhuwal: gutjark (with the Ngandi noun class prefix gu-)

• Colette G. Craig, Noun Classes and Categorization (1986, →ISBN, page 389

From Old Norse jarki.

jark m (definite singular jarken, indefinite plural jarkar, definite plural jarkane)

1. edge of the sole of the foot