unpenning
unpenning is the present participle and gerund of unpen.
Meaning of unpen
Verb
unpen (third-person singular simple present unpens, present participle unpenning, simple past and past participle unpenned)
- To release (from a pen).
- Her supplies, a billy of tea and scraps of salt beef and damper (her dog got the beef), gave out the first day, though that was as nothing to her compared with the bleat of the penned sheep, for it was summer and droughty, and her dog could not unpen them.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16
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- Unpenning is the present participle and gerund of unpen.
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