Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-BARK'
DE-BARK', v.t. [Fr. debarquer; de and barque, a boat or vessel.]
To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft, and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery. [It is less used, especially in a transitive sense, than disembark.]
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