Question

in the poem on killing a tree what does the word 'leprosy hide' means?​

Answer 1

Here it means the bark of a tree. Here 'hide' means 'skin' and 'leprous' is referred to a skin of leprosy patient.... here it means the bark of a tree. The "leprous hide" is the discolored bark of the tree.

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