ringbark

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verb

To remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.

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Meanings

verbringbark (third-person singular simple present ringbarks, present participle ringbarking, simple past and past participle ringbarked)

present singular third person ringbarks · participle present ringbarking · participle past ringbarked · past ringbarked · alternative ring-bark

  1. ambitransitiveTo remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.

    After the passing of this Act no lessee of Crown Lands shall ringbark any trees on Crown Lands unless he be the holder of a permission to ringbark under the hand of the Minister.

    1888, “An Act to regulate Ringbarking on Crown Lands and to limit claims for compensation under the fifteenth section of the "Lands Acts further Amendment Act of 1880."”, in Public Statutes of New South Wales, page 19

Origin

From ring + bark.

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