untwigとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

untwig (third-person singular simple present untwigs, present participle untwigging, simple past and past participle untwigged)

1. To remove twigs from.
   • 1617 [1892], John A. Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, volume III, Dublin: Joseph Dollard, page 77:

     [I]t is therfore ordered and agreed, by aucthorytye of this assembly, that all and every cooper within this citty and franches therof shall twigge every of his hoopes and pynn them, upon paine of forfeiture of his or their Forfeiture. barrelles or other their vesselles untwigged, and that withall each cooper as aforesaid shall make barrelles of Bristoll band measure, and none other barrelles, upon paine of forfeiture as aforesaid, and lykewyse shall twigg and pynn all barrelles and other vesselles that they shall mend uppon paine of forfeiture of two pence for every hoope.

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

     But the truth was her pantaloons came down to her ankles, and when she got her leg of one caught in a twig, she nearly fainted with horror while Murial Jane untwigged it.