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unback en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + back.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To remove the back or backing from (something).
   • “When you go home,” resumed Josephine, “unback the miniature case and upon the surface opposite the painting you will find these words […]” 1896, Ida Worden Wheeler, chapter 10, in Siegfried the Mystic, Boston: Arena Publishing Company, page 109:
2. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive (a horse) of its rider.
   • Her horse againe this Princesse must vnbacke, 1599, Henry Petowe, Philochasander and Elanira, London: Thomas Purfoot:

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