Unbag

v. [UN-² 5.] trans. To take or let out of a bag.

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1611. Florio, Dissaccare, to emptie out of a sacke, to vnbag.

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1854. De Quincey, War, Wks. 1862, IV. 279. To carry the knaves like foxes in a bag to the English border and there unbag them.

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1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Floss, III. iii. Mrs. Tulliver, with a confused impression that it was a great occasion, like a funeral, unbagged the bell-rope tassels, and unpinned the curtains.

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1884. Pall Mall G., 5 March, 3/2. A crowd of spectators assembled to see the fox unbagged.

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