Bark may refer to:

Common meanings

Bark (botany) Bark is the outermost layer of Plant stem, stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the Tissue (biology), tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It ov ...

, an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick *

Bark (sound) A bark is a sound most often produced by dogs. Other animals that make this noise include, but are not limited to, wolves, coyotes, foxes, seals, frogs and owls. "Bark" is also a verb that describes the sound of many canids. Definition ...

, a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bark'' (Jefferson Airplane album), 1971 * ''Bark'' (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album) * ''Bark'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Lorrie Moore * ''

Bark! ''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it wa ...

'', a 2002 film * Bark the Polar Bear, a character in the ''

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Food

* Almond bark, a confection * Peppermint bark, a confection

Places

* Bark, Germany, a municipality * Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Bark Lake, Ontario, Canada * six other Bark Lakes in Ontario - see List of lakes of Ontario: B * Bark River (Michigan), United States *

Bark River (Rock River) The Bark River is a tributary of the Rock River, about long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the Rock ...

, United States, a tributary of the Rock River * Bark River (Lake Superior), a river in Wisconsin, United States, a tributary of Lake Superior

People

* Ernesto Bark (1858–1922), Livonian journalist and political activist, exiled in Spain * Jane Bark (1931–2023), Swedish illustrator *

Pyotr Bark Pyotr Lvovich Bark (; ; 18 April 1869 – 16 January 1937), later Sir Peter Bark was a Russian government official and later a banker. Biography Bark was born in Novotroitskoye village in Yekaterinoslav Governorate. He descended from a B ...

(1869–1937), Russian government official and banker, Russian Empire Minister of Finance

Other uses

* Bark or

barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are Square rig, rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-maste ...

, a type of sailing ship * βARK, Beta adrenergic receptor kinase, an intracellular enzyme *

BARK (computer) BARK () was an early Electromechanics, electromechanical computer built in 1950. BARK was built using standard relay, telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had ...