[UN-2 4 + BARK sb.1] trans. To deprive or strip of bark. (Cf. BARK v.2 3.)
c. 1557. Abp. Parker, Ps. lxxviii. 224. He dyd unbarke of vyne the trees.
1589. Fleming, Virg. Georg., II. 30. Smooth canes and poles of byrch Peeld or vnbarkt.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 654. A Branch of a Tree being Un-barked some space at the Bottome.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. 209. Spoyling the stick and unbarking that body, which is vitiated … by the approach of outward air.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 165. The Tree being within as hollow as a Drum, and its outmost surface, where unbark’d, dead and dry beside.
1719. London & 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.
