Unlay

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To untwist the strands of (a rope).
  • verb-intransitive. To untwist.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To untwist.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To untwist.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nautical, to untwist, as the strands of a rope.
    • Word Usage
    "In the meanwhile, I had sent two men down to the wreckage of the masts to cut away a couple of the hempen shrouds and bring them to the camp, and they, appearing about this time, I set to work to unlay the shrouds, so that they might get out the fine white yarns which lay beneath the outer covering of tar and blacking."
    Verb Form
    unlaid    unlaying    unlays   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    untwist   
     
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