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unˈsteek, v. Now dial.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To undo, unfasten, open. Also fig.
c1250Hymn in Trin. Coll. Hom. App. 258 He mai binde & to breke... He mai luke & unsteke michte of al þinge. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2828 Aaron..can wel speken; ðu salt him meten and vnsteken Him bodeword min. a1300in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1875) 26 He gethþ þe Dore to vnsteke. 1390Gower Conf. II. 128 Thus whanne he hath his cofre loken, It schal noght after ben unstoken. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 8239 Many a coffre was vnstoken, To drawe out robes that were y-loken. 1855,1868in Yks. glossaries (unsteck).
b. In pa. pple. not clearly distinguishable from ‘not closed, left open’ (un-1 8). Cf. unstoken.
13..Sir Beues (A.) 1663 Þe chaumber dore a fond vnsteke. c1350Lybeaus Disc. 1450 At a posterne unsteke Lybeauus gan out-breke. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1655 Gat nane, bot ane, with lyff out off that sted, For that the ȝet so lang wnstekit was. |