excorticate

English

Etymology

From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪkˈskɔː(ɹ)tɪkeɪt/

Verb

excorticate (third-person singular simple present excorticates, present participle excorticating, simple past and past participle excorticated)

(obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
Synonyms: decorticate, delibrate
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 69:
  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: [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for excorticate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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