Meanings
present singular third person unwindows · participle present unwindowing · participle past unwindowed · past unwindowed
- obsoleterareTo remove the window(s) or pane(s) from.
A Window in the Kitchin that had been much batter’d before, was now quite broke out, and unwindow’d, no Glass or Lead at all being left […]
1698, Richard Chamberlayne, Lithobolia, or, The Stone-Throwing Devil, London1 more example
1710,) Charles Shadwell, The Fair Quaker of Deal: or, the Humours of the Navy, London: T. Lowndes, 1769, Act III, p. 48, Well, now we have got rid of the rum Duke, being in a very merry Humour, let us put it to the Vote, whether we shall beat the Mayor and Corporation, and drown the Constable; or shall we ravish all the Women we meet with, and unwindow the Houses?
Origin
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unwindow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwindow
“unwindow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwindow. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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