vbl. sb. [f. BARE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of laying bare or uncovering; the removal of something so as to leave a bare place.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, IV. i. 53. Or the baring of my beard.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Baring of trees … the taking away some of the earth over the roots.
1847. Jeffrey, in Ld. Cockburn, Life, II. Let. 187. These barings of the heart should not be shown except to one’s other self.
2. concr. That which is removed in this process; the superficial covering, the top soil.
1871. S. Sharp, in Archæol., XLIII. 120 (D.). The baring, as it is called by the quarrymen, consists not only of the natural surface soil, but also of the upper soft bed of ferruginous rock.
1873. Archæol., XLV. 466. Bodies … buried … in pits sunk in the baring.
