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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unbark .
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Examples
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The roof was leaking, he saw; long wet streaks darkened the unbarked logs behind Mrs. McCallum, and she was sitting in a puddle.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Chinese trading settlement, a tangle of small houses and narrow lanes hemmed in by stockades of wooden slabs and unbarked fir trees.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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The merchantable parts of the trees should be removed from the woods promptly, as all dead unbarked wood furnishes an excellent breeding place for the blight fungus.
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The platform was generally very roughly made, just a series of unbarked stems placed side by side and covered with layers of earth or clay, with numerous openings through which refuse of all kinds fell into the water beneath.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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The trees are burnt, ragged, unbarked, topped, and cut off short, the trenches are blown in and jumbled, and the ground blasted and gouged.
The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
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The orderly farmhouses, the tilled fields, disappeared; a rare cabin, roughly constructed of unbarked logs, dominated a parched patch, cut from the heart-breaking tangle of the wild, a thread of smoke creeping from a precarious chimney above the far, unbroken canopy of living green.
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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It was a crude dam, -- built of logs, -- whose face consisted of strong buttresses slanted up-stream, and whose sheer was made of unbarked timbers laid smoothly side by side at the required angle.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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The walls were of unbarked logs, the roof of thatched branches interlaced, with the door at the river side.
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The fort was the usual pioneer fur post -- a barracks of unbarked logs, chinked up with frozen clay and moss, roofed with branches and snow, occupying the centre of a courtyard, palisaded by slabs of pine logs.
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It was a crude dam -- built of logs -- whose face consisted of strong buttresses slanted up-stream, and whose sheer was made of unbarked timbers laid smoothly side by side at the required angle.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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