disbark
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disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)
- (transitive) To strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
- Synonyms: bark, excorticate
- 1663, Robert Boyle, “An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. [Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title.]”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 2, page 24:
- Lieutenant G. Drummon confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only diſbark'd,) upon very intenſe Froſts; […]
Etymology 2[edit]
Middle French desbarquer, from des- + barque.
Verb[edit]
disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)
- (obsolete) To disembark.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 9”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- The ship we moor on these obscure abodes; / Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods