Obs. or arch. [f. CARK v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CARK; grieving, being anxious; trouble, solicitude; anxious toil.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. cxxxvii. 844. They which are maried … must needes be giuen ouer to many cares and carkings.
a. 1639. W. Whateley, Prototypes, I. vi. (1640), 73. Without any further carking and perplexity of mind.
1659. Gentl. Call., v. 414. Those carkings and solicitudes to which needier persons are exposed.
1692. E. Taylor, Behmen’s Threef. Life, xvii. 312. Distrustful carking and toiling.
1861. P. Young, Daily Read., II. ccxvi. 75. With all our carking and caring, we cannot increase our stature, or make any, even the least, addition to our term of life.
