Without arms. Also (of a tree): without branches.

Without, or destitute of, branches.

Of trees or plants, their stems, etc.: Not furnished with branches.

Having no limbs, deprived of a limb or limbs.

Stripped of (its) boughs.

Of cloth: Napless, threadbare. Of weapons: Unsheathed. bare poles in Nautical use: masts with no sails set; also bare-poled adj., having bare poles…

figurative. Of a tree, etc.: having bare branches. Cf. stag-headed, adj. 2.

Of a tree: having branches stripped of leaves.