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Unbarked vs Unbarbed - What's the difference?

unbarked | unbarbed |

As a verb unbarked

is past tense of unbark.

As an adjective unbarbed is

not barbed.

unbarked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unbark)

    • unbark

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cause to disembark; to land.
    • (Hakluyt)
  • To deprive of the bark.
    • to unbark a tree
    (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

    unbarbed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not barbed.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 17, author=Florence Fabricant, title=Food Stuff, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But now there is tuna from small, family-run companies that ply the Pacific, mostly off northern California, Oregon and Washington, and catch the fish using rods with unbarbed hooks, not vast nets, so there is no unwanted “by-catch.” }}