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▪ I. debark, v.1|dɪˈbɑːk|
Also 7 debarque, debarg(e.
[a. F. débarquer, f. dé = des- (see de- prefix I. 6) + barque bark n.2, ship. Cf. disbark. For debarging (quot. 1692) cf. barge.]
= disembark. a. trans.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 69 Untill he had debarqued all his Horse. 1762Gentl. Mag. 4 The Dutch debarked 700 Europeans. 1880K. Johnston Lond. Geog. 91 A refuge at which the slaves captured..were debarked.
b. intr.
1694Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 349 The forces on board are to debarque. 1883Burton & Cameron To Gold Coast I. iii. 76 A strip of beach upon which I should prefer to debark.
Hence deˈbarking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 483 To row the new debarging vessells to Portsmouth. Ibid. 505 Well boates..for debarging soldiers. 1867Garfield in Century Mag. Jan. (1884) 410/1 Three cheers for the ship, answered by our debarking friends with three more.
▪ II. debark, v.2|dɪˈbɑːk|
[f. de- II. 2 + bark n.1: cf. disbark.]
trans. To strip of its bark, decorticate. Also fig. Hence deˈbarking vbl. n.
1742W. Ellis Timber-Tree ii. 197 The Debarking of Oak in the common Season. 1744–50― Mod. Husb. IV. iii. 58 They de-bark their [hop] poles, that they may dry sooner. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. Notes 114 To debark oak-trees in the spring. 1818J. Brown Psyche 46 Let us exemplify the matter De⁓bark'd of scientific chatter. 1963R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking v. 114 Any logs which have not been properly de-barked are picked out and returned by hand to the inlet side of the barker. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai x. 166 The more enterprising de-barked the saplings. 1970Daily Tel. 4 May 14 Last year two large chestnuts were deliberately killed by poison and debarking.
▪ III. debark, v.3|diːˈbɑːk|
[f. de- II. 2 + bark n.3]
trans. To perform an operation on (a dog) to prevent it from barking. Hence deˈbarking vbl. n.
1943Biol. Abstr. XVII. 70 Dogs debarked by removal of the true vocal cords soon learned to bark again. 1959Times 30 Sept. 8/4 A ‘debarking’ operation. Ibid., A new operation for debarking dogs. 1961Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 19/5 (heading) No de-barking. Ibid., Two mongrels which annoyed neighbours with their barking are not to be ‘debarked’. |