unback

verb — 2 senses

unback

verb

Etymology From un- + back.

1

Rare To remove the back or backing from (something).

  • “When you go home,” resumed Josephine, “unback the miniature case and upon the surface opposite the painting you will find these words […]”1896, Ida Worden Wheeler, chapter 10, in Siegfried the Mystic, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 109:
2

Obsolete To deprive (a horse) of its rider.

  • Her horse againe this Princesse must vnbacke,1599, Henry Petowe, Philochasander and Elanira, London: Thomas Purfoot:

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