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▪ I. unˈbark, v.1 [un-2 4 + bark n.1] trans. To deprive or strip of bark. (Cf. bark v.2 3.)
c1557Abp. Parker Ps. lxxviii. 224 He dyd unbarke of vyne the trees. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 30 Smooth canes and poles of byrch Peeld or vnbarkt. 1626Bacon Sylva §654 A Branch of a Tree being Un-barked some space at the Bottome. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 209 Spoyling the stick and unbarking that body, which is vitiated..by the approach of outward air. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 165 The Tree being within as hollow as a Drum, and its out⁓most surface, where unbark'd, dead and dry beside. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 103 In speaking of good and bad Roots, it may be thought, that the meaning of these is only such as are broken, or unbarked. ▪ II. unˈbark, v.2 Now dial. or Obs. [un-2 5 + bark n.2] To disembark.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 194 The gouernour had vnbarked .xvi. horses which were also at the battayle. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 83 The Emperoure unbarked hym selfe in spayne & arryved at Genes. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 214 Where they..doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods. c1850in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Devonshire dial.). |