Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To untie or unfasten; loose from a truss, or as from a truss; let out; specifically, to loose, as to let down the breeches by untying the points by which they were held up; undress.
- noun Same as
untrusser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress.
- noun obsolete One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper.
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- verb To
free from atruss ; tountie orunfasten - noun obsolete an
untrusser or public whipper
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is likewise declared innocent of the case privileged from the knapdardies, into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred; because he could not jocundly and with fulness of freedom untruss and dung, by the decision of a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, as far off as they could perceive him, they ran thronging upon the back of one another in all haste towards him, to unload him of his money, and untruss his portmantles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I beseech ye, be so kind as to let me be the first that is sent on shore; for I would by all means a little untruss a point.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, as far off as they could perceive him, they ran thronging upon the back of one another in all haste towards him, to unload him of his money, and untruss his portmantles.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I beseech ye, be so kind as to let me be the first that is sent on shore; for I would by all means a little untruss a point.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He is likewise declared innocent of the case privileged from the knapdardies, into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred; because he could not jocundly and with fulness of freedom untruss and dung, by the decision of a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Arrange on a very hot dish, untruss, throw in two tablespoons of white broth.
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The tradesman alighting to untruss a point, Tom leaped at once into his saddle, and galloped off both with his horse and portmanteau.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Rude hands seized me from behind, and the doublet was torn from my back by fingers that never paused to untruss my points.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"You may untruss him, Kenneth, when I am gone," said he.
The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912
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