disharness
disharness verb: to take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
Verb
disharness (third-person singular simple present disharnesses, present participle disharnessing, simple past and past participle disharnessed)
- To take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
- Arrived there, Edwald had himself disharnessed: he placed all the pieces of his fair bright armour carefully together, with a kind exactness, almost as if he were burying a beloved friend that was dead. Then he beckoned his squires[…]1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, page 235
- "Damn this armor! A man can't dig in armor." He stripped off his breast-plate, back-plate, greaves, and sollerets; took the mattock from the amazing load on Beamish's shoulder. “I also propose to dig—with my hands,” said de Gys. “Phu-nan can help us.” They, too, disharnessed.1921, Gilbert Frankau, The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M. D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the...
Forms of disharness
| third-person singular present | disharnesses |
|---|---|
| present participle | disharnessing |
| past participle | disharnessed |
| past | disharnessed |
Origin of disharness
From Middle English disharneisen, or dis- + harness.
Questions about disharness
- What does disharness mean?
- Disharness means to take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
- What part of speech is disharness?
- Disharness is a verb.
- What is the past tense of disharness?
- The past tense of disharness is disharnessed.
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