† unpaunchv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To disembowel. Also: to cut open (the stomach of an animal). Cf. paunch v.1 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel
bowel1330
disbowelc1440
debowel1487
unpauncha1500
garbage1542
unbowel1552
disentrail1596
untripe1611
disembowel1613
exenterate1613
hulk1622
eviscerate1623
eventerate1656
garble1661
viscerate1727
degut1933
a1500 Treat. Hunting (Cambr. Ll.1.18) (1987) 55 (MED) He turnez off þe huyde..and þan gederez þe suet & þan vnpaunchet hym.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 279 Catching any Spaniarde in the water, they would take him by the one arme, and carrie him whither they pleased, yea & would vnpanch him in the water.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlviii. 159 To save themselves from the extreamitie of the cold, many advised to kil and vnpanch their horses, and enter into their panches.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 39 The old woman was vnpanching the belly of an old rotten sheepe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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