Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To raise or rouse from or as if from bed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To raise or rouse from bed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To raise or rouse from
bed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And this being so well observed and demonstrated as it is by that learned man, has made me to believe that Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder, and not only, as some think, by the motion or stirring of the earth which is occasioned by that thunder.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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_Eeles_ unbed themselves, and stir at the noise of the Thunder, and not only as some think, by the motion or the stirring of the earth, which is occasioned by that Thunder.
The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638
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He also offers the like experiment concerning the letting an Anchor fall by a very long Cable or rope on a Rock, or the sand within the Sea: and this being so wel observed and demonstrated, as it is by that learned man, has made me to believe that Eeles unbed themselves, and stir at the noise of the Thunder, and not only as some think, by the motion or the stirring of the earth, which is occasioned by that Thunder.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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