unhanging

The fifth day (27th October) there came in a frigate from the sea, which seeing us make towards her, ran herself ashore, unhanging her rudder and taking away her sails, that she might not easily be carried away.

Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

The Spaniards ran her ashore on the point by the Boca Chica, "unhanging her rudder and taking away her sails, that she might not easily be carried away."

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

The fifth day (27th October) there came in a frigate from the sea, which seeing us make towards her, ran herself ashore, unhanging her rudder and taking away her sails, that she might not easily be carried away.

Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 100-199 1909

To see him thus pricking and unhanging from the air strips of viscera and rags of flesh, you could take him for a butcher at some fiendish task.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

On unhanging the rudders, and hauling them up on the ice for examination, we found them a good deal shaken and grazed by the blows they had received during the time the ships were beset at the entrance of Davis's Strait.

Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822

And so he kept on gliding all over the house, hanging and unhanging, and stopping a few minutes to talk.”

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

I offered to help her, and she said, 'You might as well, for I suppose you had the fun of unhanging it last night'. "

Ethel Morton's Holidays 1903

And so he kept on gliding all over the house, hanging and unhanging, and stopping a few minutes to talk. "

The Life of John Ruskin 1893