Sekirov Dictionary

ring-bark

noun 2
verb 1
forms 6

noun2

The bark removed by ring-barking.
The area of the tree from which the bark has been removed by ring-barking.

verb1

•
To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark, phloem, and cambium.
- Six or eight inches above this graft the stem should be ring-barked, but leaves above the ring-bark left for shade for two or three weeks […]. — 2007

forms

ring barked · ring-barked · ring barking · ring-barking · ring barks · ring-barks

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