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  • noun Plural form of wark.

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Examples

  • For tha vines are speakin' words of a new episode in tha warks!

    Archive 2008-05-01 Felbrigg 2008

  • For tha vines are speakin' words of a new episode in tha warks!

    Update Felbrigg 2008

  • Now full to the thropple wi 'heed warks an heart aches

    The Bleckell Murrymeet (Merry Night) 2000

  • The noises include a high frequency, metallic, nasal 'ching' noise, humming, bill-clicking, 'scrarking' (scrarking is simply what it sounds like - the bird goes 'scrark' a lot), ` screech-crowing ', pig-like grunts and squeals, duck-like ` warks' and donkey-like braying.

    Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990

  • "I gie back more than I hae taken, an 'I rest on Christ's smercy;" an 'then shall ye be safe an' happy if ye fail na 'to be constant in gude warks.'

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Whereas, ye ken ye told the people that ef they repented o 'their sins and believed in Christ and gave the evidence o' gude warks they might settle right doon, and ken they'd be saved, anyhow.

    Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

  • I never saw him get up yet but he gae a'body mair than their sairin 'o' sooage, an 'main-drains, an' gas-warks, an 'so on afore he feenisht.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • The old man listened, then, "They are strange warks, women!" he said, and almost immediately went on to speak of other things.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • '' Deed no, mem, 'replied Archie, obstinately, as he arose from his seat;' 'tis verra likely a man fra the warks saying he wants to go.

    Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

  • For God the Father beholding us, in the body of his Sonne Christ Jesus, acceptis our imperfite obedience, as it were perfite, [723] and covers our warks, quhilk ar defyled with mony spots, [724] with the justice of his Sonne.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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