unwindow

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ window.

Verb

unwindow (third-person singular simple present unwindows, present participle unwindowing, simple past and past participle unwindowed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To remove the window(s) or pane(s) from.
    • 1698, Richard Chamberlayne, Lithobolia, or, The Stone-Throwing Devil, London:
      A Window in the Kitchin that had been much batter’d before, was now quite broke out, and unwindow’d, no Glass or Lead at all being left []
    • 1710, Charles Shadwell, The Fair Quaker of Deal: or, the Humours of the Navy, London: T. Lowndes, 1769, Act III, p. 48,
      Well, now we have got rid of the rum Duke, being in a very merry Humour, let us put it to the Vote, whether we shall beat the Mayor and Corporation, and drown the Constable; or shall we ravish all the Women we meet with, and unwindow the Houses?