unreeve
English
Etymology
From Middle English *unreven (attested only in past participle unrevyn) equivalent to un- + reeve.
Verb
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- (transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.
- 1909, A. W. Dimock, Dick in the Everglades[2]:
- But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.