unroost
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
unroost (third-person singular simple present unroosts, present participle unroosting, simple past and past participle unroosted)
- (transitive) To remove from the roost.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Give her the bastard,
Thou dotard; thou art woman-tired, unroosted
By thy Dame Partlet here.
References edit
- “unroost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.