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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open. transitive

   "Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements."

Example

More examples

"Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements."

Etymology

From un- + seam.

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