unsplay

present singular third person unsplays · participle present unsplaying · participle past unsplayed · past unsplayed

1. especiallyuncommonTo bring together compactly.

   ... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]

   2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148

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   ... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]

   2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN