Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip off the bark or rind of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
strip ofbark orskin .
Etymologies
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Latin ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.
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