unhand

present singular third person unhands · participle present unhanding · participle past unhanded · past unhanded

1. To release from the hand; to let go.

   As he dried the last toe, she said, “Thank you. You may now unhand my feet”

   2008, Anne Gracie, The Stolen Princess, Berkley Books, →ISBN, Chapter Two, page 33

   2 more examples

   He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

   1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12

   “Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer

   1853, Oliver Optic, Hatchie, The Guardian Slave or The Heiress of Bellevue. A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west, B. B. Mussey and Company, and R. B. Fitts and Company, Chapter XXX, page 305