barked, ppl. a.
(bɑːkt)
[f. bark v.2 or n.1]
1. Covered with, or having, a bark; encrusted.
| c 1505 Dunbar Flyting 202 Ane caprowsy barkit all with sweit. 1552 Huloet, Barked or rynded, corticatus. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 32 Flinted stones and barked tree. 1868 Geo. Eliot F. Holt 8 The thick-barked stems. |
† 2. Tanned. Obs.
| c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems 53 As barkid ledir his face is shynyng. 1569 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 308 For a barked hide ijs. vjd. ? a 1800 in Aytoun Ballads Scot. (1858) II. 376 Auld she is..And tough like barked leather. |
3. Stripped of its bark; transf. having the skin grazed or scraped off.
| 1611 Cotgr., Pelard, a round, and pilled, or barked sticke. 1854 Gard. Chron. 660 Leaving barked trees standing. 1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 305/2 A ‘barked’ shin. |