unpaunch

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ paunch.

Verb

unpaunch (third-person singular simple present unpaunches, present participle unpaunching, simple past and past participle unpaunched)

1. To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book 1, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The armie which the Emperor Bajareth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow, that to find some shelter, and to save themselves from the extremitie of the cold, many advised to kill and unpanch [translating eventrer] their horses, and enter into their panches, to enjoy and find some ease by that vitall heat.