unbare
verbEtymology From un- + bare.
1
To lay bare; to expose.
- When iron-stone is found near the surface, it is only necessary to unbare the soil and the super-incumbent earths: the stone then presents itself like a pavement more or less inclined, and is easily raised by the application of wedges, bars, &c.1840, David Mushet, Papers on Iron and Steel, practical and experimental: