Verb.—1. To scrape; or rub off the skin; to abraise.
1856. Hughes, Tom Brown’s School-days, p. 227. So, after getting up
[the tree] three or four feet, down they came slithering to the
ground, barking their arms and faces.
1859. Macmillan’s Magazine, Nov., p. 18. The knuckles of his right
hand were barked.
1872. Mark Twain, Roughing It, p. 16 (Routledge’s ed.). Every time
we avalanched from one end of the stage to the other, the
‘Unabridged Dictionary’ would come too; and, every time it came, it
damaged somebody. One trip it barked the Secretary’s elbow; the
next trip it hurt me in the stomach, and the third, it tilted
Bemis’s nose up till he could look down his nostrils—he said.