discumber

verb

discumber

verb

Etymology From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.

1

Archaic To disencumber.

  • a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

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