dismail

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verb

To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).

OriginOld French desmailler →
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Meanings

verbdismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)

present singular third person dismails · participle present dismailing · participle past dismailed · past dismailed

  1. archaicTo remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).

    Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265

Origin

  1. Old Frenchdesmailler
  2. Englishdismail

From Old French desmailler.

More words from Old French

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

mislaidmisdiallamiids
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APA

dismail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismail

MLA

“dismail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismail. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dismail,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismail.

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