Dictionary entry

Decorticate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

De‐cor″ti‐cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Decorticated; p. pr. & vb. n.Decorticating.] [L. decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex bark.] To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. “Great barley dried and decorticated.” Arbuthnot.