Ring-bark

Alternative forms

• ringbark

Full definition of ring-bark

Verb

1. To girdle a tree; to kill a tree by removing a ring of bark.
• 2007, Niya Gopal Mukerji, Handbook of Indian Agriculture, page 389Six 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 ….

Noun

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

Usage notes

In the US, the term girdling is used, almost exclusively.