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BARKARY

Volume 1 · 70 words · 1771 Edition

a tan-house, or place for keeping bark.

Bark-binding, a distemper incident to trees, cured by slitting the bark, or cutting along the grain.

Bark-galling, is when the trees are galled with thorns, &c. It is cured by binding clay on the galled places.

Bark-longue, or Barca longa, a small low sharp-built, but very long vessel without a deck. It goes with sails and oars, and is very common in Spain.