disharnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

disharness (三人称単数 現在形 disharnesses, 現在分詞 disharnessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 disharnessed)

1. To take off one's armor; to strip off one's armor.
   • 1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, page 235:

     Arrived there, Edwald had himself disharnessed: he placed all the pieces of his fair bright armour carefully together, with a kind exactness, almost as if he were burying a beloved friend that was dead. Then he beckoned his squires […]

   • 1921, Gilbert Frankau, The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Curious Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M. D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China, page 337:

     "Damn this armor! A man can't dig in armor." He stripped off his breast-plate, back-plate, greaves, and sollerets; took the mattock from the amazing load on Beamish's shoulder. “I also propose to dig—with my hands,” said de Gys. “Phu-nan can help us.” They, too, disharnessed.