uncase
verbEtymology From un- + case.
1
Obsolete To skin or flay.
2
To strip (someone); to undress.
- Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8:
3
To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
4
Government, Military, Politics, War To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.