unpaunch en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + paunch.
Meanings
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To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
The armie which the Emperor Bajareth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow, that to find some shelter, and to save themselves from the extremitie of the cold, many advised to kill and unpanch [translating eventrer] their horses, and enter into their panches, to enjoy and find some ease by that vitall heat.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unpaunched | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unpaunched | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unpaunching | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unpaunches | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |