Obs. [UN-2 9.] trans. To sever by cutting.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xvi. 13. Behold how God began to vncut the knot of those bands with which the English held France bound.

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1622.  Prosopopoeia, in Phœnix Brit. (1732), I. 314. You see it is of a greater Consequence than to uncut a Gordian Knot.

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