dishelmv.1
/dɪsˈhɛlm/ transitive. To deprive or disarm of one's helmet. intransitive for reflexive. To take off one's helmet.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > cover or furnish with helmet [verb (transitive)] > divest of helmet
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1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 33 Incontinent as..Iason hadde..smyton doun the Geant to the erthe..he dishelmed him.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxviii. [clxiv.] 469 Sir Raynold dishelmed the Englisshe knyght.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiv. 383 Jove made me yield, Dishelm my head.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 125 When she saw me lying stark, Dishelm'd and mute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
dishelmv.2
/dɪsˈhɛlm/ transitive. To deprive of the helm or rudder.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > deprive of rudder
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a1849 H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 155 Fear that dishelms The vessel of the soul.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 75 To float, dishelm'd, a wreck upon the waves.
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