disbark
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From dis- + barkCategory:English terms prefixed with dis-#BARK.
Verb
disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)Category:English lemmas#DISBARKCategory:English verbs#DISBARKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DISBARKCategory:Pages with entries#DISBARKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DISBARK
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#DISBARK) To strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
- Synonyms: bark, excorticate
- 1663, Robert Boyle, “An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. [Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title.]”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 2, page 24:
- Lieutenant G. Drummon confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only diſbark'd,) upon very intenſe Froſts; […]Category:English terms with quotations#DISBARK
Etymology 2
From Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#DISBARK desbarquer, from des- + barque.
Verb
disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)Category:English lemmas#DISBARKCategory:English verbs#DISBARKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DISBARKCategory:Pages with entries#DISBARKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DISBARK
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#DISBARK) To disembark.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 9”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- The ship we moor on these obscure abodes; / Disbark the sheep, an offering to the godsCategory:English terms with quotations#DISBARK