ringbarked

Updated: May 13, 2025

My pen has had only happy writing to-do so far, and now! "You rogue!" Judy called, pretending to run very quickly. Then the whole world seemed to rise up before her. There was a tree falling, one of the great, gaunt, naked things that had been ringbarked long ago.

Ethel Sybil Turner - Seven Little Australians

It climbs, by shreds of bark, the trunks of old dead white-box and blue-gums solid and hard as cast-iron and cuts off the limbs. And where there's a piece of recently ringbarked country, with the dead leaves still on the trees, the fire will roar from bough to bough a fair imitation of a softwood forest fire.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush