unpen

English

Etymology

un- +‎ pen

Verb

unpen (third-person singular simple present unpens, present participle unpenning, simple past and past participle unpenned)

1. (transitive) To release from a pen.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:

     Her supplies, a billy of tea and scraps of salt beef and damper (her dog got the beef), gave out the first day, though that was as nothing to her compared with the bleat of the penned sheep, for it was summer and droughty, and her dog could not unpen them.

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