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Unbark

Unbark \Un*bark"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + bark the vessel.] To cause to disembark; to land. [Obs.]
--Hakluyt.

Unbark

Unbark \Un*bark"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + bark rind.] To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree.
--Bacon.

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unbark

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cause to disembark; to land. 2 To deprive of the bark.

Usage examples of "unbark".

The cabin was of unbarked maple logs, with four rooms and a rustic portico.

A log of rough, unbarked timber from the forest was the only seat, and a rude framework of wood filled with straw or dry ferns was his bed.

At one side of the cottage there was a barn of rough, unbarked timber, which reminded Ben and Annie of their own barn on the farm-stead by Lake Huron.

He seized a roofing lath from one of the piles propped up on sawhorses, but did not strike out at Harras, who tense and unbarking was testing the strength of his chain.

American was distracted from his contemplation of the weather by the sight of a large dog, a wolflike, shaggy and unbarking beast, that came trotting toward him from out of the gathering dusk.

He seized a roofing lath from one of the piles propped up on sawhorses, but did not strike out at Harras, who tense and unbarking was testing the strength of his chain.