unlimb

English

Etymology

un- +‎ limb

Verb

unlimb (third-person singular simple present unlimbs, present participle unlimbing, simple past and past participle unlimbed)

1. (transitive) To remove a limb or limbs from.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     […] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]

   • 2007, Rev. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood, European Christianity and the Atlantic Slave Trade:

     The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults.