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ˈring-bark, v.
[f. ring v.1 9 b.]
a. intr. To remove rings of bark from trees, in order to kill them. Also, to remove a narrow or incomplete ring in order to check rapid growth.
b. trans. To bark (trees) in this way.
1887J. Farrell How He Died 165 Eating damper, on a free selection where he'd been ring-barking. 1892Dublin Rev. Apr. 460 [Rabbits] effectually ‘ringbark’ and kill the scrub growths. 1938C. P. Ackers Pract. Brit. Forestry vi. 215 This is the time to ring-bark and let these rough poles, after they have done their job, topple over as branchless rotten logs. 1975H. F. Heady Rangeland Managem. iv. 57 Ring-barking by voles killed as much as 84 percent of the Artemisia tridentata in some Montana stands.
Hence ˈring-barked ppl. a., ˈring-barking vbl. n.; also ˈring-barker.
1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 231 The finest timber is usually that first selected for destruction by fire, by ring barking and other rude and wasteful methods. 1893Scribner's Mag. June 795/1 The half-burnt trunk of a ring-barked gum-tree. 1905Spectator 12 Aug. 220/2 The ‘ring-barker's’ axe had been busy cutting the circular girdle in the bark which starves trees to death. 1938C. P. Ackers Pract. Brit. Forestry xi. 341 Partial ring barking is practised in some orchards so as to check the sap of the tree and so induce more free fruiting. 1961Observer 18 June 35/5 Successfully greedy roots can mean fruitless apples and pears, and ‘ring barking’ is the remedy. |