verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To deprive or strip of the bark.

   "to unbark a tree"

2. 2
   To disembark; to make land. obsolete, transitive

   "Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods."

Example

More examples

"Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods."

Etymology

From un- + bark.

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