Wiktionary
ring-bark
alt. To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark. n. 1 The bark removed by ring-barking 2 The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking vb. To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark.
Usage examples of "ring-bark".
Englishman, facing round and gazing through the window, from which, if the truth be told, some hundreds of miles of the unpicturesque ring-barked woodlands of the Lower Wammera were apparently visible.