unˈbag, v.
[un-2 5.]
trans. To take or let out of a bag.
| 1611 Florio, Dissaccare, to emptie out of a sacke, to vnbag. 1854 De Quincey War Wks. 1862 IV. 279 To carry the knaves like foxes in a bag to the English border and there unbag them. 1860 Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. iii. iii, Mrs. Tulliver, with a confused impression that it was a great occasion, like a funeral, unbagged the bell-rope tassels, and unpinned the curtains. 1884 Pall Mall G. 5 Mar. 3/2 A crowd of spectators assembled to see the fox unbagged. |