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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To girdle, as a tree.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark.
  • noun The bark removed by ring-barking
  • noun The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking

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