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- verb Present participle of
uncord .
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Examples
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“Oh yes, they never fail,” she answered, looking steadfastly on her box, which she was diligently uncording.
Uncle Silas 2003
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It is Petronius, the unprincipled scoundrel, who is uncording a bed, dragging remorselessly through innumerable holes the long rope whose doleful wail came near giving me an epilepsy.
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And Adrian Landale with some amusement watched the Frenchman rise from the package he was then uncording to examine the platters on the table and loudly sniff his disdain.
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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Then Percy was conscious of some one uncording the mouth of the sack and uncovering his head.
A Dog with a Bad Name Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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The uncording of the latter intensified the expectation of the Eskimo to boiling point, and when the brown paper was removed, and a roll of something with a strange, not to say bad, smell was displayed, they boiled over in a series of exclamations to which the former "huks" and "hos" were mere child's play.
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'Oh yes, they never fail,' she answered, looking steadfastly on her box, which she was diligently uncording.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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The Jews now complained, of weariness, and the younger, uncording a small mattress, spread it on the deck and sought repose.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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Having arrived there, the fellow, who still maintained a dogged silence, began to pull the trunks off the sumpter mule, and commenced uncording them.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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After much uncording and dashing and knocking about of baggage, the person who officiated proceeded to drag open the suspected packages rather unceremoniously.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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The Jews now complained, of weariness, and the younger, uncording a small mattress, spread it on the deck and sought repose.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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