unbowel
English
Etymology
Verb
unbowel (third-person singular simple present unbowels, present participle (US) unboweling or (UK) unbowelling, simple past and past participle (US) unboweled or (UK) unbowelled)
- (transitive) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
- 1600, John King, Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yorke:
- they ransacke all the corners of the shippe, vnbowel her inmost celles
References
- “unbowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.