unshut

U1N1S1H4U1T1
UK/ʌnˈʃʌt/

verb

To open (a door, window etc.).

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbunshut (third-person singular simple present unshuts, present participle unshutting, simple past and past participle unshut)

present singular third person unshuts · participle present unshutting

  1. archaicTo open (a door, window etc.).
    1 more example

    ANd anone as he had vnshet the wyndowe the enchaūtement was gone / thēne he knewe hym self that he had done amys / Allas he sayd that I haue lyued so long now I am shamed / Soo thenne he gat his swerd in his hand and said thow traitresse what arte thow that I haue layn by alle this nyghte / thow shalt dye ryghte here of my handes

    1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI

Origin

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Chicago

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