unbark

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ bark.

Verb

unbark (third-person singular simple present unbarks, present participle unbarking, simple past and past participle unbarked)

1. To deprive of the bark.

   to unbark a tree

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Unbark'd branch of a tree

2. (obsolete) To cause to disembark; to land.
   • 1582, R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC:

     Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods.

Translations

to deprive of bark

• Finnish: kuoria (fi)
• Manx: roost

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unbark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)