unhill

English

Etymology

From un- + hill.

Verb

unhill (third-person singular simple present unhills, present participle unhilling, simple past and past participle unhilled)

  1. (obsolete) To uncover, reveal. [13th-17thc.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter iiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
      these four men and these ladyes layd hand on syr launcelot / [] / and soo in to a chamber where was the holy vessel of the Sancgreal / and by force syr launcelot was leid by that holy vessel / and there came an holy man and vnhylled that vessel / and soo by myracle and by vertu of that holy vessel syr launcelot was heled and recouerd
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