Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To pull off the cap or head-dress of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deprive of the coif or cap.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To deprive of the coif or cap.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ coif

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Examples

  • Get you now back and rest you, for I know you stand uneasily, and you shall not uncoif me. '

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

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