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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bark, n.¹ [ME. barke, bark (c 1300), ON. bark-, bǫrkr.] The bark of trees. Also fig.1456 Hay II. 121/23 (rub thame with a bark of a tree). c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 27 (the treis, branchis, lefis, and barkis). 1513 Doug. iii. i. 62 (the blude followit furth of the bark). 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii (capercailȝie leiffis of barkis of treis). a1570-86 Maitl. F. lxxxix. 15 (bark and branchis). c1590 Fowler 206 § 70 (outward bark and skin).

b. Tanner's bark; tan. 1450 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 12.
It sall be lefull … to red their handis of it that is in to bark betwix this and Candilmes 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 42 b.
xxxiij grene hydis new laid in the bark hoill with bark to bark thame 1620 Ib. L. 306 b.
Sevintene hydis with als mekill bark to bark thame with 1661 Acts VII. 47/2.
Tanning of skins & hyds without bark