unhand
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ʌnˈhænd/
unhand (unhands, present participle unhanding; past and past participle unhanded)
- To release from the hand; to let go.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12,
- 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,
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