unlimb
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unlimb (third-person singular simple present unlimbs, present participle unlimbing, simple past and past participle unlimbed)
- (transitive) To remove a limb or limbs from.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]
- 2007, Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade:
- The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.