delibration
English edit
Etymology edit
de- + Latin liber (“bark”) + -ation
Noun edit
delibration (countable and uncountable, plural delibrations)
- (obsolete, uncountable, forestry) The act of stripping off bark.
- 1966, Timber Statistics for Europe - Volume 19:
- Coniferous and broadleaved wood destined for delibration or pulping by mechanical, chemical or combined means.
- Obsolete form of deliberation.
References edit
- “delibration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.