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uncoffle en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + coffle.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To free from a coffle.
   • They are to be uncoffled, given tunics and stand in orderly rows until told otherwise. 2008, A. Bradbury, Emancipator:
   • A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase. 1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176:

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