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tree bark noun The distinctive bark of a hunting dog, signaling that hunted game has been cornered.

1923 Williams After Bruin We heard the furious race, the well-known tree bark, and Mark’s shots. 1929 Kephart Smoky Mt Magic 33 “That is what Sylvia calls ‘tree-bark’,” she observed. “Good, so she says, for ’most anything that ails you’.” 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) [The dogs] stopped, bayed, and commenced barking the tree bark. 1960 Burnett My Valley 31 As soon as Fan and Glass, Lead, Sooner, and Ring got their second breath, they settled down to their coarse tree bark.