unrove

[ uhn-rohv ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. simple past tense and past participle of unreeve.

adjective

1. withdrawn from a block, thimble, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unrove¹

First recorded in 1900–05, for the adjective

Example Sentences

To guard against the possibility of any of the party being swept away by the undertow, the halliards had been unrove and were used as a life-line.

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The elder woman thus having finished her course with joy, they unrove the nether rope and drew little Margaret up to the bank, exhorting her to cry aloud "God save the King!" and also to pray for him, that she might get her liberty.

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Waiting a few moments to recover his strength, the doctor made a mighty effort, and some of the coils whose strands had been cut by those little teeth yielded and gradually unrove, so as to leave the upper part of his body free.

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Hereupon he rapidly unrove the cord and coiled it away in the bosom of his shirt.

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Already a man had unrove the fore-signal-halyards, the sailors raised a shout and the coiled rope was thrown.

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