barking vbl n
   2 Comb barking house, ~ kettle, ~ pot.
   1837 Royal Gazette 5 Dec [Advertisement:] a stone built barking house (with kettle, etc) about 35' by 16. 1975 BUTLER 76 Originally [the tan boiler] was referred to as a barking kettle. That was the appropriate name, a barking kettle to bark twine and sails in. 1988 Evening Telegram 27 Aug, p. A4 'Are you suggesting...that your true-blue Barking Kettle fellow is a chap with the arse out of his trousers?' 1987 POOLE 78 I had a man to help me bring the traps to the barking pot and help me to bring them back when they were finished.

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