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unˈswaddle, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To free from, take out of, swaddling bands or clothes.
1580North Plutarch (1505) 382 His wife did vnswadell the young boy to wash and shift him. 1633B. Jonson Tale Tub i. iv, Puppy ha' scarce unswadled my legges yet. 1662Greenhalgh in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 16 When they had brought it to the altar, four or five were busied in uncovering and unswaddling the roll. 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 184 Standing at the foot of the mattress, we fell back like tragic heroes, so as not to unswaddle our feet in lying down.
fig.1600Nashe Summer's Last Will Prol., Their censures we wey not, whose sences are not yet vnswadled. 1631Fuller David's Punishm. vii, As when a tender rose begins to blow, Yet scarce unswaddled is. |