Meaning

noun tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

noun a noise resembling the bark of a dog

noun a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

originFrom Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”),…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0