A nervous terrier makes this sharp acoustic noise when a robin lands nearby, yet that very robin is perching atop a thick wooden layer that shares my name. What four-letter word am I?
Bark
'Bark' describes the explosive vocalization of a dog and the tough external casing protecting the wood of a garden tree.
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