▪ I. † disbark, v.1 Obs.
(dɪsˈbɑːk)
Also 6–7 -barke, 7–8 -barque.
[ad. F. desbarquer (1564 in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. débarquer, f. des-, dis- 4 + barque bark n.2: cf. It. sbarcare.]
= debark v.1, disembark. a. trans.
| 1552 Act 5–6 Edw. VI, c. 14 §12 If he..there do disbark, unlade and sell the same. 1632 Lithgow Trav. v. 187 That in the night, they should have entred the Haven, disbarke their men, and scale the walles. 1709 Royal Proclam. 20 Oct. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4605/1 [To] be..carried..to the Port..and there to disbarque and sell the same. 1725 Pope Odyss. xi. 22 We..Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods. |
b. intr. (for refl.)
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vii. 37 b, From Constantinople into Italy, where I disbarked to go to Rome. 1692 W. Hacke Collect. Orig. Voy. (1699) IV. 16 Being now got to Leghorn..I there disbarqued. 1842 Manning Unity of Church i. iv. 107 We read that he ‘disbarking from the ship with great joy, hastened to see St. Polycarp’. |
Hence disˈbarking vbl. n.
| 1598 Florio, Sbarcamento, an vnshipping, a disbarking, a landing. 1625 J. Glanvill Voy. to Cadiz 33 [To] finde a landing place fitted for our disbarkeing. |
▪ II. disˈbark, v.2
Also 6–7 -barke, 7 -barque.
[f. dis- 7 a + bark n.1: cf. debark v.2]
trans. To divest of the bark, strip the bark off (a tree), decorticate; = debark v.2
| 1578 Florio 1st Fruites 86 The forreyne knyfe doothe disbarke it. 1657 Austen Fruit Trees i. 102 If we disbarke a bough or branch where sap is up. 1797–1803 Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 176 Oaks cut down, disbarked and embrowned by time. 1812 Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 192 Disbarking those whose tops they [rabbits] cannot reach. |
b. To strip off (bark).
| 1659 Gate Lang. Unl. x. §109 marg., The hard rinde (outward bark which may be disbarked) is without. |
Hence disˈbarked ppl. a., divested of bark; disˈbarking vbl. n., decortication.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 541 Neither doth the tree Adrachne find any hurt or offence by disbarking. 1657 Austen Fruit Trees i. 137 This bough may be cut off below the disbarked place. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tree, The pricking and disbarking of the Roots. |