excorticate

verb /ɪkˈskɔː(ɹ)tɪkeɪt/

1. To strip of bark, shell or skin.

   archaic, obsolete

   Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]

Where it comes from

From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry excorticate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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