cark

To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.

[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.

Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.

[W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.

To labor anxiously.

Why for sluggards cark and moil?

A noxious or corroding worry.

His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.

Fling cark and care aside.

The state of being filled with worry.

Pronunciation spelling of caulk.