carking

Sculptures that could not be removed from the reservation have been defaces, such as a small carking of a bear that someone tried to pry from the ground.

Surely her fitting place was in the fragrant earth, sheltered by waving grass from carking cares.

Through the misery at his heart and the carking pain from his muzzle, Lad began to realize that he was tired, also that he was hollow from lack of food.

And she was far less cursed with "nerves," with feverish unrest and carking discontent, than women are to-day.

He thought of the years of carking secrecy through which such things are dragged in England, and contrasted it with the neat despatch of the Yankee system.