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hark

  [hahrk]
Use hark in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to listen attentively; hearken.
–verb (used with object)
2. Archaic. to listen to; hear.
–noun
3. a hunter's shout to hounds, as to encourage them in following the scent.
—Verb phrase
4. hark back,
a. (of hounds) to return along the course in order to regain a lost scent.
b. to return to a previous subject or point; revert: He kept harking back to his early days in vaudeville.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME herken, earlier herkien, OE *heorcian; c. OFris herkia, harkia; akin to MD harken, MHG, G horchen. See hearken; hear

Synonyms:
4b. refer, allude; regress, retrogress.
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hark   (härk)   
intr.v.   harked, hark·ing, harks
To listen attentively.

[Middle English harken, herken, from Old English *heorcian.]
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Hark

Hark\, v. i. [OE. herken. See Hearken.] To listen; to hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] --Hudibras.

Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting.

To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression.

He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. --W. E. Norris.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : hark
Spanish: tenedor,
German: die Gabel,
Japanese: フォーク
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hark 
c.1175, from O.E. *heorcian (related to hearken), an intensive form from base of hieran (see hear). To hark back (1829) originally refers to hounds returning along a track when the scent has been lost, till they find it again.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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