unshutter

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English

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Etymology

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un- +‎ shutter

Verb

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unshutter (third-person singular simple present unshutters, present participle unshuttering, simple past and past participle unshuttered)

  1. (transitive) To open or remove the shutters of.
    • 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown at Oxford: [], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:
      First he unshuttered the little lattice-window of the room on the ground floor; a simple operation enough, for the shutter was a mere wooden flap, which was closed over the window at night, and bolted with a wooden bolt on the outside

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