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unpaunching

unpaunching is the present participle and gerund of unpaunch.

Meaning of unpaunch

Verb

unpaunch (third-person singular simple present unpaunches, present participle unpaunching, simple past and past participle unpaunched)

  1. 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...1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about unpaunching

What is unpaunching the present participle and gerund of?
Unpaunching is the present participle and gerund of unpaunch.

Words near unpaunching in the dictionary

  1. unpatternable
  2. unpatterned
  3. unpaunch
  4. unpaunched
  5. unpaunches
  6. unpaunching
  7. unpauperized
  8. unpausable
  9. unpause
  10. unpaused
  11. unpauses

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