1. ark - Noun
2. Ark - Proper noun
A chest, or coffer.
The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.
The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.
A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEducation is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. Horace Mann
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. Frederick Douglass
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon
Philologists who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. William Cowper
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Herman Melville
Professionals built the ‘Titanic,' amateurs built the ark. American Proverb