unshutter

U1N1S1H4U1T1T1E1R1

verb

To open or remove the shutters of.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbunshutter (third-person singular simple present unshutters, present participle unshuttering, simple past and past participle unshuttered)

present singular third person unshutters · participle present unshuttering · participle past unshuttered · past unshuttered

  1. transitiveTo open or remove the shutters of.

    First he unshuttered the little lattice-window of the room on the ground floor; a simple operation enough, for the shutter was a mere wooden flap, which was closed over the window at night, and bolted with a wooden bolt on the outside

    1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC

Origin

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