Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of barking trees in rings about the trunk, in order to kill them.
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- verb Present participle of
ring-bark .
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Examples
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They attack plants at the base of the stem, ring-barking or cutting them through completely.
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'It was a small patch of about 3.8 hectares and the rabbits had been ring-barking it - gnawing the bark away in a ring round the trunk.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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The horses visited — there wasn’t much about horse-flesh either he didn’t know — she got into her breeches and rode with him to an outlying paddock where the hands were ring-barking.
Sister Ann 2004
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"Axel Bosselmann, writing from the University of Tasmania, describes how he stopped his goats from ring-barking and doing other damage to trees.
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