excorticate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).
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Verb[edit]
excorticate (third-person singular simple present excorticates, present participle excorticating, simple past and past participle excorticated)
- (archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin.
- Synonyms: decorticate, delibrate
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 69:
- 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: [...]
- 1821, John Knowles, An Inquiry Into the Means which Have Been Taken to Preserve the British Navy […] :
- The sap-wood of the excorticated winter-felled timber, kept in piles in his Majesty's yards, has rotted
- 1842, Albert Smith, “Mr. Ledbury's Adventures at Home and Abroad (Chapter II)”, in Bentley's Miscellany:
- His mouth was dry and parched; his hands red and swollen, and looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.
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References[edit]
- “excorticate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.