To strip off the bark from (a tree); to cut off a complete circle of bark from it, so as to kill it.

transitive. To deprive or strip of bark. (Cf. bark, v.2 3.)

transitive. To divest of the bark, strip the bark off (a tree), decorticate; = debark, v.2

To strip (a tree) of bark. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To remove the bark from (a tree).

transitive. To strip of its bark, decorticate. Also figurative.

transitive. technical. To make (laths) by cleaving wood along the grain into thin strips; (also) to strip (trees) of bark.