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uncoffle

uncoffle verb: to free from a coffle.

Verb

uncoffle (third-person singular simple present uncoffles, present participle uncoffling, simple past and past participle uncoffled)

  1. (transitive) To free from a coffle.
    • 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...1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176
    • They are to be uncoffled, given tunics and stand in orderly rows until told otherwise.2008, A. Bradbury, Emancipator

Forms of uncoffle

third-person singular presentuncoffles
present participleuncoffling
past participleuncoffled
pastuncoffled

Origin of uncoffle

From un- + coffle.

Questions about uncoffle

What does uncoffle mean?
Uncoffle means to free from a coffle.
What part of speech is uncoffle?
Uncoffle is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncoffle?
The past tense of uncoffle is uncoffled.

Words near uncoffle in the dictionary

  1. uncoffered
  2. uncoffin
  3. uncoffined
  4. uncoffining
  5. uncoffins
  6. uncoffle
  7. uncoffled
  8. uncoffles
  9. uncoffling
  10. uncogent
  11. uncogged

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