dissheathe
English
Etymology
Verb
dissheathe (third-person singular simple present dissheathes, present participle dissheathing, simple past and past participle dissheathed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become unsheathed.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- his sword dissheathing pierced his own thigh