transitive. To deprive of the peel or bark.

transitive. To strip the rind or bark from (a tree, log, etc.); = rind, v.1 1. Also in extended use (cf. sense 2). Obsolete.

transitive. To strip, peel, skin; to take off by peeling or stripping, etc.

transitive. To remove the hull, shell, or husk of; to strip of the outer covering.

transitive. To strip (a fruit, vegetable, etc.) of its outer layer; to remove the skin, rind, or bark of; = peel, v.1 4a. Now English regional.

transitive. To remove the husk from, to deprive of the husk. Also transferred and figurative.

transferred (chiefly dialect) To strip the bark, rind, husk, or other integument from; to bark, peel.

transitive. To divest of husk or shell; †to clean (a fish) of spines.

transitive. To remove the bark, rind, or husk from; to strip of its bark.

To deprive of its skin, decorticate, peel. [So in Latin] Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To strip the rind or bark from (a tree, log, etc.); to strip (rind or bark) in this way. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Now chiefly Ca…

transitive. To pull or strip off the bark from (a tree), or the shell from (a nut, seed). Also figurative.

To strip off (bark).