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

   • 1627 (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:

     Unbark'd branch of a tree

2. (obsolete) To cause to disembark; to land.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)