unseam

English

Etymology

un- +‎ seam

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːm
• IPA^(key): /ʌnsiːm/

Verb

unseam (third-person singular simple present unseams, present participle unseaming, simple past and past participle unseamed)

1. (transitive) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements.