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单词 unspar
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unsparv.

Etymology: un- prefix2 1a. Compare Dutch ontsperren, Old High German intsperran, -en (Middle High German ent-, ensperren).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈspar.
transitive. To unbar (a door, etc.); to open.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > a door, gate, etc. > unlock, unbolt, etc.
undoc950
unloukOE
unsparc1175
unsteekc1250
unpinc1300
unshutc1315
loosec1400
unbarc1400
unlockc1400
open?a1425
unbolt1598
unlatchc1625
unpadlock1769
unsneck1785
undub1807
unslot1827
unsnib1905
snick1927
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice
ditc1000
shut1362
steekc1380
stopc1400
quirt1532
to close up1542
to fill up1598
unspar1611
caulk1616
cork1650
busha1659
instop1667
close1697
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12158 Cristess þohht wass sperrd swa wel..Þatt naness kinness sinnfull lusst. Ne mihhte itt næfre unnsperrenn.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 37 Heo schal habbe leaue forte unsperren [a1250 Nero openen] hire þurl eanes oðer twien.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 89 The blood sprang doun by þe sper, and vnsperrede þe knyghtes eyen.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 272 A spirit..bit vnsperre þe ȝates.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxlvi. 2 Like as the byrde in the cage enclosed, The dore vnsparred and the hawke without.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 12 How feately then vnsparred she the doore.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desverouiller vn huis, to..vnsparre a doore.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. iv. 26 Forty yeomen..The lofty palisade unsparred, And let the draw-bridge fall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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