unlimb

verb

unlimb

verb

Etymology From un- + limb.

1

To remove a limb or limbs from.

  • […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  • The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.2007, Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade:

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