Adjective

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Without bark (the tree covering).

(of a dog) That does not bark.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 11, author=Maggie Scarf, title=The Fog of Love, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Pearlie has managed to acquire a phone that purrs, but doesn’t ring; she has found a breed of barkless dog; she censors the newspapers by cutting out upsetting articles. }}

Adjective

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Lacking bars

* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, title=To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, title=The Story of the "9th King's" in France, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal. }}

Lacking a bar

* {{quote-news, year=2000, date=July 14, author=Done Rose, title=The Grub Game, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return. }}