unbark

From un- +‎ bark.

unbark (third-person singular simple present unbarks, present participle unbarking, simple past and past participle unbarked)

1. To deprive or strip of the bark.

   to unbark a tree

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Unbark'd branch of a tree

2. (obsolete, transitive) To disembark; to make land.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     Where they […] doe vnbarke themselues and vnlade their goods.

• “unbark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.