Barked

ppl. a. [f. BARK v.² or sb.¹]

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1. Covered with, or having, a bark; encrusted.

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c. 1505. Dunbar, Flyting, 202. Ane caprowsy barkit all with sweit.

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1552. Huloet, Barked or rynded, corticatus.

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1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 32. Flinted stones and barked tree.

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1868. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, 8. The thick-barked stems.

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† 2. Tanned. Obs.

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c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems, 53. As barkid ledir his face is shynyng.

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1569. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 308. For a barked hide ijs. vid.

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a. 1800[?]. in Aytoun, Ballads Scot. (1858), II. 376. Auld she is … And tough like barked leather.

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3. Stripped of its bark; transf. having the skin grazed or scraped off.

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1611. Cotgr., Pelard, a round, and pilled, or barked sticke.

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1854. Gard. Chron., 660. Leaving barked trees standing.

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1884. Harper’s Mag., Jan., 305/1. What if she prophesy truly a few sprained fingers, a bruise or two, or a ‘barked’ shin?

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