Ring-bark

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The bark removed by ring-barking. uncountable
  2. 2
    The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium. transitive

    "Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks […]."

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"Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks […]."

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