unbark
verbEtymology From un- + bark.
1
To deprive or strip of the bark.
- to unbark a tree
- Unbark'd branch of a tree1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete To disembark; to make land.
- Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC: