unback
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[edit]unback (third-person singular simple present unbacks, present participle unbacking, simple past and past participle unbacked)
- (transitive, rare) To remove the back or backing from (something).
- 1896, Ida Worden Wheeler, chapter 10, in Siegfried the Mystic[1], Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 109:
- “When you go home,” resumed Josephine, “unback the miniature case and upon the surface opposite the painting you will find these words […] ”
- (transitive, obsolete) To deprive (a horse) of its rider.
- 1599, Henry Petowe, Philochasander and Elanira[2], London: Thomas Purfoot:
- Her horse againe this Princesse must vnbacke,