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Excorticate

//ɪkˈskɔː(ɹ)tɪkeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To strip of bark, shell or skin. archaic, obsolete

    "Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]"

Etymology

From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).

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