dismail
English
Etymology
From Old French desmailler.
Verb
dismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)
- (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
Anagrams
- lamiids, misdial, mislaid