What is "barkless"

Usage examples of "barkless".

A little farther along we came to the barkless stump of the tree to which Mr.

The river was full of logs--long, slender, barkless pine logs--and we leaned on the rails of the bridge, and watched the men put them together into rafts.

To his right was a glass-enclosed pen of worn, compacted earth interspersed with tree branches and barkless logs.

The ruse of stepping foxlike along the barkless logs, balancing, jumping out and landing on another log, made the boys yip with pleasure.

And a wooden cottage with a thatched roof and barkless tree trunks for a doorframe would certainly have offended his sensibilities.

It became a limbless, barkless spear, polished smooth, hollow-tipped, rising above seas of opposing armies.

Each farm had two or three vicious hounds set to go off at the merest sound, rushing barkless and low out of the dark shadows of roadside trees to rip at his legs with jaws like scythes.

Just across the cold, clear lake from the Llao Llao Hotel where we stayed, Hillary and I walked through the magical Arrayanes forest, with its barkless myrtle trees.

She pointed to a blasted tree beyond the rise, barkless and gnarled and twisted as if in pain.

It was barkless and I could never understand the purpose of a dog that was a virtual mute.

On the hill someone had lashed together a crucifix of branches, barkless and polished by the weather.

The walls were of barkless log, milled flat on the inside, and the ceiling joists were squared-off and planed.

At this major crossroads was a gallows tree, a huge oak held together by brass hoops bolted around the pitted and barkless trunk it had been dead for the last ten years.

Chollo put a couple of dry, barkless logs on top of the grate and stood and went back to his chair.

Though the hut remains barred, doweled, chinkless, and in hospitable, there is a note, snow-powdered and barely legible, stuck on barkless Black Forest wood: "Stockingcap has to read Plato in the valley.