[UN-2 4.] trans. To take out of lead coffins.

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1796.  Burke, Lett. to Noble Lord, Wks. VIII. 6. They unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living.

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[1845.  Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. III. 389. Nor have the dead been unplumbed to furnish missiles of death against the living.]

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