单词 | ringbark |
释义 | ringbarkv. 1. transitive. To remove a narrow or incomplete ring of bark from (a tree or branch) in order to control vegetative growth. Also: to strip bark from around (a tree, branch, etc.) to such an extent that it dies. Also intransitive. Cf. ring v.2 9b, girdle v. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > remove ring of bark girdle1662 ring1800 belt1812 ringbark1823 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > be lost as an outer layer > be lost as skin, husk, or bark > strip bark in a ring ringbark1823 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark > in a ring belt1812 ringbark1823 1823 H. Phillips Sylva Florifera II. 246 When raised from layers, we should recommend the branches to be ring-barked, which would facilitate the obtaining roots. 1887 J. Farrell How he Died 165 Eating damper, on a free selection where he'd been ring-barking. 1902 H. Lawson Children of Bush 312 The tall gum-trees had been ring-barked (a ring of bark taken out round the butts), or rather ‘sapped’—that is, a ring cut in through the sap—in order to kill them. 1938 C. 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. 1944 J. Stoney Pruning & Planting Fruit Trees xii. 31 Towards the end of the season this elaborated food passes downwards..but just within the bark, and when we ring-bark fruit trees, we cut off the complete circulation. 1978 P. B. Glick Highland Peoples New Guinea 115 Large trees are ring-barked, debris is burnt, and each woman plants for her family. 1997 L. Reich Pruning Bk. (1999) 123/1 You will also use your fingernails to pinch growing points, perhaps a knife to notch or ring bark, and strings or weights to bend branches downward. 2006 R. Gill in Large Herbivore 178 Elephants have been noted to ring bark as much as 58% of a sample of Acacia tortilis trees in less than 10 years. 2. transitive. Australian and New Zealand. In extended use; spec. to damage or weaken as if by ringbarking. ΚΠ 1899 Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland) 1 Mar. 3/3 ‘Oh no, dash it all, don't go and spoil a cove for riding,’ protested the lively young man from outback; ‘just you ringbark it.’ 1940 ‘K. Bruce’ Digger Tourists 113 Insect powder!.. Of course I tried it, and all it did was to make 'em so angry that they tried to ring-bark me round the legs. 1967 C. W. Williams Yellow, Green & Red 215 The previous Tory Government of Queensland..had ‘ringbarked’ the Court that had been established by a Labor Government. 1987 R. Norgrove Shoestring Sailors 138 ‘Of course skinboys pick it up quicker than those who have been ringbarked.’ ‘Ringbarked?’ ‘Circumcised.’ 2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 Feb. 21 Ringbark the middle classes and your country withers. Derivatives ˈringbarked adj. (of a tree or branch) deprived of a ring of bark (cf. ringed adj. 5); (of land) undergoing or cleared by the ringbarking of trees. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective] > having ring of bark removed > to kill tree rung1844 ringbarked1875 1875 ‘M. Whiteford’ Maude Whiteford 281 In time the denuded surface would be recovered, but with a thick corded cuticle, that would always attest its personality as a ring-barked tree. 1899 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 5 419 Not infrequently springs burst forth in ringbarked country, owing to the superabundance of subterranean water now no longer expended in supplying the trees. 1974 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 118 The edge of the forest, hard smoke beyond the paddocks Frays back and is there. Cutters go out through it, Come in again on the ringbarked slopes, down the fence lines. 2003 I. M. Crawford & P. Crawford Contested Country 137 Much of the cleared area in the former forest was still covered with dead ringbarked trees. ˈringbarker n. chiefly Australian (a) a person who or device that ringbarks trees in order to kill them; (b) the stick insect Podacanthus wilkinsoni, which sometimes occurs in swarms that cause the defoliation of eucalypts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark > one who ringbarker1886 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > family Phasmidae > podocanthus wilkinsoni (ringbarker) ringbarker1935 1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales & Victoria in 1885 191 The country has been devastated far and wide by the ring-barker, a person who cuts off a circle of bark round the tree. 1905 Spectator 12 Aug. 220/2 The ‘ring-barker's’ axe had been busy cutting the circular girdle in the bark which starves trees to death. 1935 K. C. McKeown Insect Wonders Austral. xviii. 149 Another fine stick-insect is found in the Walcha district, where it is popularly known as the ‘Ringbarker’, because of the dying brown appearance of the trees after the insects have stripped them of their foliage. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 295/2 Most phasmids are solitary in habit. One of the few gregarious forms, the ringbarker (Podacanthus wilkinsoni), sometimes appears in countless numbers in various districts of New South Wales, where it defoliates the eucalypts. 1981 T.S. McNight & E. J. Mullins Canad. Woods (ed. 3) vi. 132 The mechanical ring barker is the most common type of barker employed in Canada. 2006 H. Neville Chased Sun (ed. 2) i. 19 Leonard Waters..was Aboriginal, had little education, and had worked as a ring-barker and then as a shearer. ˈringbarking n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark > in order to kill tree ringbarking1823 barking1878 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > of bark > in a ring ringbarking1823 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark ring1700 girdling1792 ringing1816 girdle1825 notch-ringing1884 ringbarking1938 1823 H. Phillips Pomarium Britannicum (ed. 3) 286 Michael Morrah, Esq. of Worthing, made a most satisfactory proof of the utility of ring barking. 1938 C. 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. 1975 H. F. Heady Rangeland Managem. iv. 57 Ring-barking by voles killed as much as 84 percent of the Artemisia tridentata in some Montana stands. 1997 G. Mills & L. Hes Compl. Bk. S. Afr. Mammals 223 Elephants undoubtedly have the capacity to transform habitats: the ringbarking and felling of trees can change woodlands..to grassland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1823 |
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