Anagrams of: GRAYKINGBIRD

• The process of building a dike.

• To remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process).

• tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

• a noise resembling the bark of a dog

• a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

• the sound made by a dog

• speak in an unfriendly tone

• cover with bark

• remove the bark of a tree

• make barking sounds

• tan (a skin) with bark tannins

• a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

• any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

• large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

• an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

• anything that slows or hinders a process

• stop travelling by applying a brake

• cause to stop by applying the brakes

• resembling the rough bark of a tree

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• lessen, diminish, or curtail

• covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth

• abounding with bracken

• To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.