English

Alternative forms

• ringbark

Verb

ring-bark ‎(third-person singular simple present ring-barks, present participle ring-barking, simple past and past participle ring-barked)

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

     Six 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

ring-bark ‎(uncountable)

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.