unlimb
English
Etymology
un- + limb
Verb
unlimb (third-person singular simple present unlimbs, present participle unlimbing, simple past and past participle unlimbed)
- (transitive) To remove a limb or limbs from.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]
- Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick