Meaning of excorticate | Babel Free

Definitions

To strip of bark, shell or skin.

archaic, obsolete

Examples

“Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]”

“The sap-wood of the excorticated winter-felled timber, kept in piles in his Majesty's yards, has rotted”

“His mouth was dry and parched; his hands red and swollen, and looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.”

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